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The Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK
Bjorklund, Anders - 2012
Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences show up already early in offspring's life in outcomes...
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American Exceptionalism in a New Light : A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States
Jantti, Markus; Bratsberg, Bernt; Roed, Knut; Raaum, … - 2021
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyze differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...
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The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective
Giles, John - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
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