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Comparing earnings inequality using two major surveys
Mark S. Handcock
Statistician at Pennsylvania State University
Martina Morris
Sociologist at Pennsylvania State University
Annette Bernhardt
Sociologist at the Institute on Education and the Economy, Teachers College, Columbia University
Some previous research suggests that discrepancies exist between the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Current Population Survey in terms of earnings trends; when the sample is limited to full-time, year-round workers, however, the discrepancies are largely eliminated. This article focuses on the comparison between the NLSY79 and the CPS, updating the Gottschalk-Moffitt analysis to 1994, the final year of data collection for the NLSY79 cohort.
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