On the interpretation of age-earnings profiles
1997
Many economists use cross-sectional age-earnings profiles to describe the course of earnings over the worklife of the average worker. We argue that such an interpretation is not typically correct. After citing numerous examples of such erroneous interpretations from the literature, we explain why cross-sectional profiles fail to accurately portray longitudinal earnings profiles and show how different the two sets of profiles can be.
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