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| Author: | Bratsberg, B. (et al.) |
| Title: | Nonlinearities in intergenerational earnings mobility: consequences for cross-country comparisons |
| Journal: | Economic Journal
2007 : MAR, VOL. 117:519, p. C72-C92 |
| Index terms: | country comparisons earnings families mobility Denmark Finland Norway United Kingdom USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article shows that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland and Norway, unlike those for US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log earnings of sons and fathers is flat in the lower segments of fathers' earnings distribution - sons growing up in the poorest households have the same adult earnings prospects as sons in moderately poor households - and is increasingly positive in the middle and upper segments. This convex pattern contrasts sharply with the findings for the US and UK, where the relationship is much closer to being linear. |
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