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underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … transmission channels along the income distribution in the United States indicate that the endowment effect slightly decreases in …
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We estimate the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income for the Netherlands using complete population data for … around 177,000 28-year olds. We find that IGEs are much lower when actual individual income data are used rather than proxies … or aggregates for income. Though low, daughters' IGEs are higher than sons' indicating lower income mobility for women. …
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of age in a more polarized labor market, while the substantial rise in the income shares of the top 1 percent, their …
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observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we … Panel Study of Income Dynamics' data we find that married sons imitate their parents' household disparities more than …
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We present new estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticity for Australia. We closely follow the methodology used by Leigh (2007), but use considerably more data (twelve waves of HILDA and four waves of PSID). Our adjusted estimates are intended to be comparable to those for other...
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We examine intergenerational mobility in the very long run, across generations that are six centuries apart. We exploit a unique dataset containing detailed information at the individual level for all people living in the Italian city of Florence in 1427. These individuals have been associated,...
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This paper offers an explanation for some evidence that intergenerational earnings mobility is higher in more developed economies and that mobility is positively correlated with wage equality. In the model mobility promotes economic growth via its effect on the accumulation and allocation of...
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The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about … main analysis uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 …
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perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …
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This is the first paper that studies the effects of including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) in the … measure of income on intergenerational income mobility. Using national panel data sets for Australia, the United States and …-regional comparisons of intergenerational income mobility may be misleading, especially using tax data as imputed rent is rarely taxed …
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