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Intergenerational mobility between and within Canada and the United States

Connolly, Marie; Corak, Miles; Haeck, Catherine - 2019

Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each …

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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows: the importance of family and community background in...

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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008842237

The intergenerational dynamics of social inequality : empirical evidence from Europe and the United States

Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2013

Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … income elasticity in the United States than in Germany and Great Britain, and country differences concerning the influence of …

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The intergenerational transmission of occupational preferences, segregation, and wage inequality : empirical evidence from three countries

Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2012

Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....

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American exceptionalism in a new light : a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

Jäntti, Markus (contributor) - 2006

We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...

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Who’s Your Daddy? Intergenerational Mobility in the U.S. Financial Industry

Schürmann, Henrik - 2020

-generation finance industry employees whose fathers already worked in finance enjoy a substantial income surplus compared to their …

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Who's your daddy? : intergenerational mobility in the U.S. financial industry

Schürmann, Henrik - 2020

-generation finance industry employees whose fathers already worked in finance enjoy a substantial income surplus compared to their …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266445

The long shadow of slavery: the persistence of slave owners in Southern law-making

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2020

This paper documents the persistence of the Southern slave owning elite in political power after the end of the American Civil War. We draw on a database of Texan state legislators between 1860 and 1900 and link them to their or their ancestors' slaveholdings in 1860. We then show that former...

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Does Public School Spending Raise Intergenerational Mobility? Evidence from U.S. School Finance Reforms

Kwon, Sungoh - 2018

intergenerational income mobility (IGM). To estimate the causal effect of public school spending, I exploit the plausibly exogenous … resources in public schools. An increase in school spending raises IGM of children from high-income families. However, public … school spending has little impact on IGM of low-income children. The school spending effects are concentrated among low …

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