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Don't Stop Believin’ – Heterogeneous Updating of Intergenerational Mobility Perceptions Across Income Groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345626
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Adermon, Adrian - 2019
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871027
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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre Andrade de; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243166
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Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany - 2019
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of foreign inventors from other nations that specialize in those … same technologies. For the average country in our sample this number corresponds to only 25 inventors and a standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867871
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The Decline of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, and Intergenerational Mobility
Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358817
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Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870-2017
Clark, Gregory; Leigh, Andrew; Pottenger, Mike - 2017
The paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870-2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status information includes occupations from electoral rolls, and records of degrees awarded by Melbourne and Sydney universities. Status persistence was strong throughout, with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744956
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The causal effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2010
We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274841
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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470263
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Don't Stop Believin' – Heterogeneous Updating of Intergenerational Mobility Perceptions across Income Groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377566
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Quantifying the Role of Firms in Intergenerational Mobility
Dobbin, Caue; Zohar, Tom - 2023
We investigate the role of firms in intergenerational mobility by decomposing the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) into firm-IGE and individual-IGE using a two-way fixed effects framework. Using data from Israel, we find that the firm component is responsible for 22% of the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469715