caa a22 4500 477055486 CHVBK 20180405111346.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19961101xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2061783 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.2307/2061783 Economic mobility of young workers in the 1970s and 1980s [Elektronische Daten] [Greg Duncan, Johanne Boisjoly, Timothy Smeeding] This paper uses longitudinal data to estimate cohort changes in the earnings trajectories of young adult males. Levels of earnings are uniformly lower for male workers turning 21 between 1980 and 1991 than in 1970-1979, although rates of earnings growth are roughly comparable. Among males turning 21 before 1980, six in 10 (60%) of all men and seven in 10 (71%) college-educated men attained earnings levels by age 30 that were at least twice the poverty level. Corresponding fractions for workers turning 21 between 1980 and 1991 were considerably lower (42% and 56%). Recent cohorts from all demographic subgroups appeared to have more difficulty than older cohorts in attaining middle-class earnings. Population Association of America, 1996 Duncan Greg Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2040 Sheridan Road, 60208-4100, Evanston, IL, USA aut Boisjoly Johanne University of Quebec at Rimouski Timothy Smeeding, USA aut Smeeding Timothy Syracuse University, USA aut Demography Springer-Verlag 33/4(1996-11-01), 497-509 0070-3370 33:4<497 1996 33 13524 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061783 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2061783 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Duncan Greg Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2040 Sheridan Road, 60208-4100, Evanston, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boisjoly Johanne University of Quebec at Rimouski Timothy Smeeding, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smeeding Timothy Syracuse University, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Demography Springer-Verlag 33/4(1996-11-01), 497-509 0070-3370 33:4<497 1996 33 13524 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer