WAGE MOBILITY AND WAGE INEQUALITY AMONG YOUNG WORKERS

This analysis uses data from the National Longitudinal Surveys to exam ine wage inequality and wage mobility within the wage distribution for young high school graduates during their early years in the labor mar ket. The analysis constructs a new index that facilitates measuring mc bility changes over time. The data indicate that no strong relationshi p exists between wage mobility and wage inequality for young workers. Controlling for time invariant differences between individuals also in dicates that between the 1970s and 1980s factors that impact mobility underwent very few changes.