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Identifying an Earnings Process With Dependent Contemporaneous Income Shocks

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This paper proposes a novel approach for identifying coefficients in an earnings dynamics model with arbitrarily dependent contemporaneous income shocks. Traditional methods relying on second moments fail to identify these coefficients, emphasizing the need for nongaussianity assumptions that capture information from higher moments. Our results contribute to the literature on earnings dynamics by allowing models of earnings to have, for example, the permanent income shock of a job change to be linked to the contemporaneous transitory income shock of a relocation bonus.

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  • Dan Ben-Moshe, 2023. "Identifying an Earnings Process With Dependent Contemporaneous Income Shocks," Papers 2303.08460, arXiv.org, revised May 2023.
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