Markus Jäntti- Comments on Endeweld Intragenerational Wage Mobility and Inequality in Israel

Comments on Miri Endeweld and Haya Stier (2017). “Wage mobility of Young Workers in an old and new labor market: Israel 1990-2015”.

Manuscript, The National Insurance Institute (NII), the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University Markus Jäntti1 1

Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University

Conference on Social Mobility and Inequality in Israel Jerusalem, June 14, 2017

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wage mobility (based on tax registry data) among. . . . . . young workers (24-30 on entry, no LM in year prior to entry) ... . . . in 1990-2015 (periodized to 1991, 1995, . . . , 2010) . . . . . . followed for 5, 10 and 15 years

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real incomes grow for young workers but little real shift (“growth�) in the profiles despite strong economic growth (=relative deterioration?) relative mobility (as measured by Shorrocks-index) is U-shaped between 1991/2000–2005/2015: declines to each same level as much heterogeneity in income growth vulneraeble groups fare worse

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too much for one paper – multiple papers or one long report? would be useful to organize the different approaches along different mobility concepts, e.g.: I I I

real income changes (e.g., “growth incidence curves�) transition matrices/positional change income risks

Questions/comments

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interesting to compare experience of these workers to advantaged group (say, 30-40 year old men)

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more descriptive information about the types of persons who are entering is useful (and some background info on youth laboue markets

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focus on those with no earnings in prior year? (who at 24 had no earnings at 23? University graduates vs long-term unemployed vs young parents)

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role of wage/employment variability?

Concepts of income mobility Source: Jäntti and Jenkins (2015)

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positional change individual income growth mobility as inequality reduction income risk

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may differ across concepts relationship to equality of opportunity (?)

Endeweld, Miri and Haya Stier (2017). “Wage mobility of Young Workers in an old and new labor market: Israel 1990-2015”.

Manuscript, The National Insurance Institute (NII), the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University.

Jäntti, Markus and Stephen Jenkins (2015). “Income mobility”. In: Handbook of Income Distribution. Ed. by Anthony B Atkinson and François Bourguignon. Vol. 2. Elsevier. Chap. 10, pp. 807–935.