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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful ?omnibus measure? of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...

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Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: Capitalist Dynasties in the Land of Equal Opportunity?

Björklund, Anders; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2008

This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution … the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the extreme top (top 0.1 percent) income transmission is remarkable with … fathers' income are, if anything, negatively associated with these variables. Wealth, on the other hand, has a significantly …

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Unionization and the evolution of the wage distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

Albrecht, James; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization clauses in the central wage agreements. During the second period, there was more scope for...

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