Modelling income processes with lots of heterogeneity.

All empirical models of earnings processes in the literature assume a good deal of homogeneity. In contrast to this we model earnings processes allowing for lots of heterogeneity between agents. We also introduce an ex- tension to the linear ARMA model that allows that the initial convergence to the...

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Main Authors: Browning, M, Ejrnæs, M, Alvarez, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2006