Björklund, Anders; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 5, pp. 474-484
This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility at the top of the income and earnings distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden, we find that intergenerational transmission is very strong at the top, more so for income than for earnings. At the...