This paper argues that there is a close connection between the increase in earnings losses following separations that occurred in the United States from the 1970s to the 1980s and the increase in earnings dispersion that occurred during the same time both between, as well as within, educational...

Changes in the fraction of workers experiencing job separations can account for most of the increase in earnings dispersion that occurred both between, as well as within educational groups in the United States from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. This is not true of changes in average earnings...

This paper develops an agent-based modelling approach to quantify the impact of COVID-19-induced economic disruptions on household debt and unplanned savings over 2020. We merge data from the Survey of Financial Security and the Survey of Household Spending to construct a representative...