Björklund, Anders; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden, we find that intergenerational transmission is very strong in the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the...