Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use … income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0 ….2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than income mobility, but non-parametric techniques uncover significant non …

background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading …. Parental loss by death is assumed to be exogenous; the experiences of children with a bereaved background offering a benchmark … to assess the endogeneity of parental loss through divorce. Differences between individuals with divorced parents and …

des parents et ceux des enfants ainsi que le degre et les sources de la mobilite intergenerationnelle au Canada. La …