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Is inequality in subjective well-being meritocratic? : Danish evidence from linked survey and administrative data
Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Olufsen, Isabel Skak - 2022
This paper decomposes inequality in subjective well-being into inequality due to socioeconomic background (SEB) and … meritocratic inequality due to differences in individual merits such as school performance. We measure the meritocratic share of … outcomes are not yet visible. At age 18-19, about 40 percent of the inequality in well-being is meritocratic. The role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361479
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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre Andrade de; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014239287
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Intergenerational mobility in the land of inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411980
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Intergenerational mobility in the land of inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414601
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440819
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459537
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Income inequality, equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility
Corak, Miles - 2013
Families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child's opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background. Cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers will most likely lower the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777000
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2018
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children’s economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932596
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Intergenerational mobility of economic well-being in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022 - This version: 31 August 2022
We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of countries in Latin America going beyond parent-child correlations in educational attainment. We use several indicators of well-being, such as the socio-economic situation of individuals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466616
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Are we architects of our own happiness? : the importance of family background for well-being
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Wunder, Christoph - 2014
results suggest that family background explains, on average, between 30% and 60% of the inequality in permanent well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419392