We examine how intergenerational income mobility responds to structural changes in a simple theoretical model of …

This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced … in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the … also explore how changes in intergenerational income persistence is correlated with market reforms, economic development …

income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well …-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of income in a dynamic framework. This finding holds after controlling for other …'s own history as well as the relative income performance with respect to the others living in the society under analysis do …

persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in … Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income that is attributable to family background …

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is … polarization effects of parental child care where compensation/substitution of time for parental child care versus income is … multidimensional polarization intensity information for the poor and the rich and disentangles the single time and income contribution …