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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551917
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539965
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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US …. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936425
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Bjorklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jantti, Markus; … - 2021
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and … between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base … case results, based on very similar sample criteria and definitions for all countries, show that this correlation is above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321281
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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders (contributor) - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful omnibus measureʺ of the overall impact of family and … between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base … case results, based on very similar sample criteria and definitions for all countries, show that this correlation is above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001483298
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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and … between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base … case results, based on very similar sample criteria and definitions for all countries, show that this correlation is above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335242
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Intergenerational Correlations in Labor Market Status : A Comparison of the United States and Germany
Couch, Kenneth A.; Dunn, Thomas A. - 1998
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-economic Panel to calculate comparable measures of intergenerational correlations of earnings, hours and education in the United States and in Germany. Our results indicate that there is remarkable similarity across the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102936
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Housing Wealth
Daysal, N. Meltem; Lovenheim, Michael F.; Wasser, David N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Rising wealth inequality has spurred an increased interest in understanding how and why wealth is correlated across generations. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in housing wealth driven by home price changes in different areas to isolate the causal impact of parental housing wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372426
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A nonparametric analysis of black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 2 (2011) 3, pp. 335-379
Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility and the factors that determine these differences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756354
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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows …: the importance of family and community background in Germany is higher than in Denmark and comparable to that in the US …. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008842237