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 …

authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

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 …

Deux quasi-experiences sont menees pour evaluer l'effet du divorce des parents sur les revenus et le comportement sur … les parents sont divorces et ceux provenant de familles intactes et endeuillees exagerent de beaucoup l'incidence du … passe familial, en particulier le revenu et l'activite sur le marche du travail des parents au cours des annees precedant le …

intergenerational income mobility among Canadian men; and (2) estimate the income disadvantage (in adulthood) of being raised in a low … income household. We find that there is considerable intergenerational income mobility in Canada among middle income earners …, but that the inheritance of economic status is significant at both the very top and very bottom of the income distribution …

Using data from the 1976-to-1997 Survey of Consumer Finances and the 1993-to-2004 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics …, we examine developments in family income inequality, income polarization, relative low income, and income redistribution … through the tax-transfer system. We conclude that family after-tax-income inequality was stable across the 1980s, but rose …