This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …

This paper deals with an analysis of the effects of education on the income of Czech households from 2006-2010. EU …-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) review results are the main data source. The paper investigates with … by the head of the household. It further deals with income differences of individual educational groups expressed by the …

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Strat- ification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) in Japan is around .3 for both sons and daughters, a rather low figure in comparative …

As pointed out by the Expert Group on Household Income Statistics (Canberra Group, 2001), the way in which is dealt … with the income value of home ownership is crucial for distribution analyses. Home-ownership can have a large impact on a … survey year 2004 (with income data referring to 2003). These estimates allow us to assess the distribution effect of …

Economic Literature both assert the inevitability of an increasing share of capital in total income, given a higher rate of … return to capital than the rate of growth in income. This paper shows by a specific example, a logical argument and its … intuition that the alleged inevitability is not valid. Even just for capital to grow faster than income, we need an additional …

cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditure. When the size of … the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US dollars a day in purchasing power …

-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

Significant departures from log normality are observed in income data, in violation of Gibrat's law. We identify a new … log normal than the distribution of income. We explain these empirical results by showing that the logic of Gibrat's law … applies not to total income, but to permanent income and to maginal utility. These findings have important implications for …

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate time-inconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …