Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence among German Workers

In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that about 1/3 of the earnings differential in the labor market has been passed on from the generation of fathers to their sons

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Eisenhauer, Philipp ; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Deutschland \| Germany \| Generationengerechtigkeit \| Intergenerational equity \| Lebenseinkommen \| Lifetime income \| Familiensoziologie \| Sociology of the family \| Lohn \| Wages

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (40 p)
Series:	SOEP Paper ; No. 134
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 2008 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1291061 [DOI]
Classification:	J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; J32 - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Private Pensions ; J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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