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"And Yet it Moves" : Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Acciari, Paolo - 2019

We link tax returns across two generations to provide the first estimate of intergenerational mobility in Italy based … on administrative income data. Italy emerges as less immobile than previously depicted by studies using proxies for …. Provinces in Northern Italy, the richest area of the country, display levels three times as large as those in the South. This …

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The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy

Cunha, Flavio - 2007

A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. It is silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in the components of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents....

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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

The U.S. wage structure evolved across the last century: narrowing from 1910 to 1950, fairly stable in the 1950s and 1960s, widening rapidly during the 1980s, and quot;polarizingquot; since the late 1980s. We document the spectacular rise of U.S. wage inequality after 1980 and place recent...

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Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States

Connolly, Marie - 2019

Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each country. Our sub-national analysis finds that the national border only partially distinguishes the close to one thousand regions we analyze within these two countries. The...

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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I : Childhood Exposure Effects

Chetty, Raj - 2017

We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than seven million families who move across commuting zones and counties in the U.S. Exploiting variation in the age of children when...

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Income and Wealth Volatility : Evidence from Italy and the U.S. In the Past Two Decades

D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2019

inequality and dynamics. Here we analyse the two concepts in a comparative perspective for the same individuals in Italy and the …

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The Size and Composition of Wealth Holdings in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands

Kapteyn, Arie; Panis, Constantijn - 2021

This paper analyzes retirement saving and portfolio choice in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands. While … worth and gross wealth should be highest in Italy, that Dutch households should hold the lowest wealth levels at retirement …

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The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares

Parker, Jonathan A. - 2010

We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in their share of aggregate income. In the U.S., since top income shares began to rise rapidly in the early 1980s, incomes of those in the top 1 percent of the income distribution...

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The Determinants of Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility : Using Test Scores to Measure Undermatching

Chetty, Raj - 2020

We analyze how changes in the allocation of students to colleges would affect segregation by parental income across colleges and intergenerational mobility in the United States. We do so by linking data from tax records on parents' incomes and students' earnings outcomes for each college to data...

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Intergenerational Mobility in Education : Variation in Geography and Time

Fletcher, Jason - 2018

Although the measurement of intergenerational income mobility has seen a rapid increase in attention and policy discussions, similar examinations of educational mobility in the U.S. are lacking. This paper begins to fill this gap by documenting differences in educational mobility across time...

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