Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each … regions we analyze within these two countries. The Canada-US border divides Central and Eastern Canada from the Great Lakes … mobility southern parts of the United States than with the rest of Canada, and the fact that these areas represent a much …

Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings … attention. The present paper proposes an estimation method that corrects for such inconsistencies. The extent of this lifecycle …

helpful to focus on a particularly apt comparison, that between the United States and Canada, in order to illustrate how the …