Age-Earnings Profile

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Age-Earnings Profile

A chart showing the average or median income for workers over time. In general, earnings rise as workers become older, though this is not always the case. One may make age-earnings profiles for all workers, or one may customize them for workers in different industries or of different demographics.

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It is interesting to note that although there are significant differences in compensation for workers across the employer size, yet the age earnings profiles follow the life-cycle pattern in both categories where income increases with age for some time, reaches at the peak and then declines.

Employers size wage differential: does investment in human capital matter?

To get an indication of how much the age earnings profiles changed between 1979 and 1989, we predict earnings for each education, year and sex group for each year of age from age 20 to age 70.

A simple comparison of how the age earnings profiles have changed can be seen by examining the sum of earnings from age 20 to age 70.

Age-earnings profiles estimates: do they change over time?

Estimating the earnings equation by gender will allow for gender differences in age earnings profiles.

Do women receive compensating wages for earnings uncertainty?

The age earnings profiles based on the estimates of earnings functions indicate that earnings are increasing functions of education and one of the main causes of inequality in the personal earnings.

Personal earnings inequality in Pakistan: findings from the HIES 1993-94

Moreover, the age earnings profiles for different education groups follow the usual concave shape, showing a decline in earnings after the prime earnings age.

Determinants of personal earnings in Pakistan: findings from the Labour Force Survey 1993-94