A correlation curve is introduced as a tool to study the degree of intergenerational income mobility, i.e. how income …’s income with respect to parents’ income (i.e. its sensitiveness to different dispersion among the generations) and the … studies and in this study labour earnings are compared to disposable income. The correlation between the parental income and …

Canada. At the same time, returns to education have gone up. Both factors have contributed to exacerbating income gaps … between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income … intergenerational income transmission. In addition, overall income mobility has shrunk less in communities that have experienced greater …

measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …-egalitarian distribution of income until 2000, and (ii) a less opportunity-egalitarian distribution of wealth after the financial crisis in …

. The main research question raised in the paper is whether our perception of income differentiation is driven by experience … more tolerant to income inequality than a less mobile and segmented one? The intuitive answer seems to be an obvious “yes …

and upper bound estimates – both for gross and net earnings based either on periodical or permanent income – for both …

and upper bound estimates ­ both for gross and net earnings based either on periodical or permanent income ­ for both …

inequality between individuals exerting the same effort. To this end, we define a fair income that fulfils ex-post equality of … opportunity requirements. Unfairness is measured by an unfair Gini based on the distance between the actual income and the fair … income. Our findings reveal that the measures of ex-post inequality of opportunity largely vary across regions, and that this …

strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also …

control. We use data for Swedish men born between 1955 and 1967 for whom we measure the distribution of long-run income, as … well as several important background circumstances, such as parental education and income, family structure and own IQ … what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several …