Corak, Miles; Heisz, Andrew - EconWPA - 1998
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 …-linearities in both of these relationships. Intergenerational earnings mobilty is greater at the lower end of the income distribution …