Publication type
ISER Working Paper Series
Series Number
2009-18
Series
ISER Working Paper Series
Author
Publication date
June 11, 2009
Abstract:
This paper uses the New Zealand Linked Income Supplement (LIS) to investigate the
annual transitions in hourly earnings of working age individuals over the years 1997
to 2004. I first construct transition matrices for annual changes in weekly and hourly
earnings, to enable comparison with previous analyses using New Zealand tax data. I
then estimate the determinants of annual changes in hourly earnings using OLS and
quantile regressions. Differences in human capital are associated with differences in
the rate of earnings growth. The results were broadly similar across the sub-periods
1997-2001 and 2001-2004.
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Notes
working paper
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