This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban … Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is … income at the two extremes of the income distribution, which is more accentuated at the top centiles of the distribution. We …

The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in … Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income that is attributable to family background …

microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … from the German Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS), the present paper compares EU-SILC-based results about income …

the Panel Study on Income Dynamics favors models lacking such heterogeneity. Such models invariably indicate workers face …

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 …

As pointed out by the Expert Group on Household Income Statistics (Canberra Group, 2001), the way in which is dealt … with the income value of home ownership is crucial for distribution analyses. Home-ownership can have a large impact on a … survey year 2004 (with income data referring to 2003). These estimates allow us to assess the distribution effect of …