TY - RPRT AU - Raferzeder, Thomas AU - Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf TI - Who is on the Rise in Austria: Wage Mobility and Mobility Risk PY - 2004/Oct/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 1329 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1329 AB - In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We use Austrian data from tax authorities to find out how population characteristics are related to these two concepts of earnings mobility. KW - earnings volatility KW - relative income positions KW - earnings mobility ER -