Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58
This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United … distribution of earnings of fathers. When a more flexible function form is fit to the data, the apparent similarity between Germany … and the United States disappears. Relative to mobility in Germany, upward mobility is higher in the United States for sons …