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Intergenerational earnings mobilities - How sensitive are they to income measures?
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In this article, the authors give various estimates of intergenerational earnings mobility by applying different earning periods, age brackets, and earning components, including hourly wage rates rather than annual earnings.About:
This article is published in Journal of Income Distribution.The article was published on 2009-12-15. It has received 14 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Earnings & Social mobility.read more
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Cross‐country rankings in intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology
TL;DR: In this article, the relative level of intergenerational mobility, whether classified by income, education, or social class, is summarized and explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence are presented.
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Two-Sample Two-Stage Least Squares (TSTSLS) Estimates of Earnings Mobility: How Consistent are They?
TL;DR: In this paper, the consistency of the intergenerational correlation (ρ) and the elasticity (β) was investigated for cross-national comparisons of cross-generational earnings mobility, and it was shown that the magnitude of this problem is much greater for the former than it is for the latter.
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The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S
Rasmus Landersø,James J. Heckman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark and found that Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility, largely due to redistributional tax, transfer, and wage compression policies.
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The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the US.
Rasmus Landersø,James J. Heckman +1 more
TL;DR: Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility, while Danish social policies for children produce more favorable cognitive test scores for disadvantaged children, which do not translate into more favorable educational outcomes.
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Correlations of Brothers' Earnings and Intergenerational Transmission *
Paul Bingley,Lorenzo Cappellari +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate intergenerational transmission and sibling correlations of life-cycle earnings jointly within a unified framework that nests previous models using data on the Danish population of father/first-son/second-son triads.