in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and … found in USA. This holds true for both male and female siblings. A deeper analysis of Germany shows that family background … also plays an important role in explaining variations in family income, wages, education, and risk attitudes. …

Although many studies show that Korea's income mobility is declining, it is difficult to draw organized information … income mobility in Korea, this study categorizes the mobility concept using two dimensions: absolute vs. relative and within …-generation vs. between-generations. The normative validity is clearer for intergenerational income mobility than in the …

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 …

are used to approximate lifetime income. However, little is known about biases in other popular dependence measures. We … use long Swedish income series to provide such evidence for linear and rank correlations, and rank-based transition … from short-run income suggest. …

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 …

-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective … responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades …