, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is … family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

. Yet the family (and decision making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics and that accounting for the family leads to new answers …-run fluctuations and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

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 …This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations …

same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner … explicit holistic approach to improve the reconciliation of work and family life. …