Weakening bargaining power of unions and the increasing integration of the world economy may affect the volatility of … capital and labor incomes. This paper documents and explains changes in income volatility. Using a theoretical framework which … builds distribution risk into a real business cycle model, hypotheses on the determinants of the relative volatility of …

for the years 1970 - 2004, we document how the volatility of hours worked and of wages of workers at different skill … volatility of employment, and this effect is strongest for low-skilled workers. A higher share of low-skilled employment has a … dampening impact. -- labor-market volatility ; skill levels ; financial globalization …

Moderationʺ can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using … trends in unconditional firm level and aggregated output volatility in Germany are similar. There has been a long …-run downward trend, which was interrupted by the unification period. Second, the conditional, idiosyncratic firm level volatility …

simultaneously determined. Using cross-country panel data from the World Value Survey, we find that it is important to model … becomes more difficult for everybody. -- effort ; redistribution ; World Value Survey ; simultaneous equation models …