Ng, Irene Y.H.; Shen, Xiaoyi; Ho, Kong Weng - In: Journal of Asian Economics 20 (2009) 2, pp. 110-119
This study compared intergenerational earnings mobility in Singapore and the United States by replicating the sample criteria in the Singapore National Youth Survey on the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The mean estimated earnings elasticities are almost identical: 0.26 in Singapore and...