The Occupational Ladder: Implications for Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics -- by Henry E. Siu, Kelly Foley, Matias Cortes

We thank Betsy Caucutt, Nicole Fortin, Gregory Verdugo, Ludo Visschers, and conference participants for valuable comments and discussion, and Romina Amirimehr for excellent research assistance. We acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality at UBC. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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• October 19, 2026