We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a non- stationary model of intertemporal choice. The approach allows for changes in in- come risk over the life cycle and across the business cycle, allowing for mixtures of persistent and transitory components in the dynamic...

What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...