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Economics and Finance

D-Index
45
Citations
17428
World Ranking
1708
National Ranking
1008

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1987 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Gary Solon is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their work is primarily situated in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with specific contributions to Economics and Econometrics as well as Gender Studies.

The scientist has examined several main topics within their research, including:

  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Economic Policies and Impacts

The publication record features recent papers focused largely on wage adjustment and pay equity in employment relationships. These papers include:

  • Wage Adjustment in Efficient Long-Term Employment Relationships, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Wage adjustment in efficient long-term employment relationships, 2023, Working paper
  • The Attainment of Pay Equity Between the Sexes by Legal Means: An Economic Analysis, 2025, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
  • Wage Adjustment in Efficient Long-Term Employment Relationships, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Gary Solon include:

  • Michael Elsby
  • Axel Gottfries
  • Pawel M. Krolikowski
  • George E. Johnson

Gary Solon's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
  • Working paper

Among honors received, they were named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States

    Gary Solon

  • What Are We Weighting For

    Gary Solon;Steven J. Haider;Jeffrey M. Wooldridge

  • Intergenerational Mobility in the Labor Market

    Gary Solon

  • Life-Cycle Variation in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings

    Steven Haider;Gary Solon

  • Life-cycle variation in the association between current and lifetime earnings

    Steven Haider;Gary Solon

  • Measuring the Cyclicality of Real Wages: How Important is Composition Bias?

    Gary Solon;Robert Barsky;Jonathan A. Parker

  • Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility

    Gary Solon

  • The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

    Michael W. L. Elsby;Ryan Michaels;Gary Solon

  • Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

    Chul In Lee;Gary Solon

  • Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education

    Thomas Hungerford;Gary Solon

  • Intergenerational income mobility among daughters

    Laura Chadwick;Gary Solon

  • Two-Sample Instrumental Variables Estimators

    Atsushi Inoue;Gary Solon

  • Double trouble: on the value of twins-based estimation of the return to schooling

    John Bound;Gary Solon

  • Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Canadian Men, 1976–1992: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Records

    Michael Baker;Gary Solon

  • The Association Between Men's Economic Status and Their Family and Community Origins

    Mary Corcoran;Roger Gordon;Gary Solon

  • Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

    Anders Björklund;Markus Jäntti;Gary Solon

  • Correlations between Neighboring Children in Their Subsequent Educational Attainment

    Gary Solon;Marianne E. Page;Greg J. Duncan

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Economic Status

    Gary Solon;Mary Corcoran;Roger Gordon

  • Trends in Men's Earnings Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?

    Donggyun Shin;Gary Solon

  • Biases in the Estimation of Intergenerational Earnings Correlations

    Gary Solon

  • The impact of health plan report cards on managed care enrollment.

    Dennis P. Scanlon;Michael Chernew;Catherine McLaughlin;Gary Solon

  • Estimates of the Direct Effects of Comparable Worth Policy

    George Johnson;Gary Solon

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger H. Gordon
Roger H. Gordon University of California, San Diego
Anders Björklund
Anders Björklund Lund University
Markus Jäntti
Markus Jäntti Stockholm University
John Bound
John Bound University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jacob L. Vigdor
Jacob L. Vigdor University of Washington
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University
Michael E. Chernew
Michael E. Chernew Harvard University
Greg J. Duncan
Greg J. Duncan University of California, Irvine
Theodore J. Joyce
Theodore J. Joyce Baruch College

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