Adriaan Kalwij and Rob Alessie, "Permanent and Transitory Wages of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects", Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 22, No. 6, 2007, pp. 1063-1093. The New Earnings Survey (NES) data used in this paper are confidential and are the property of National Statistics, United Kingdom (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/). In 2004 the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) has replaced the New Earnings Survey. Requests for permission to use these data should be directed to the appropriate authority at National Statistics. Adriaan Kalwij a.kalwij [AT] econ.uu.nl