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Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years … 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We find that the income relation between the pairs: sons and … daughters' and fathers' income is weaker. The income relationship between offspring and mothers was weaker in 1995 than in 2002 …
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perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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A strong association between incomes across generations - with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults - is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such "intergenerational persistence," or lack of intergenerational mobility, are...
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958888
This is the first paper that studies the effects of including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) in the … measure of income on intergenerational income mobility. Using national panel data sets for Australia, the United States and …-regional comparisons of intergenerational income mobility may be misleading, especially using tax data as imputed rent is rarely taxed …
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This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced … in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the … also explore how changes in intergenerational income persistence is correlated with market reforms, economic development …
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This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced … in 1979. The intergenerational income elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 for the … also explore how changes in intergenerational income persistence is correlated with market reforms, economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858654
This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia …. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent income rank is associated with on average 0.2 percentile increase in … child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …
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