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Using longitudinal data on fathers and their children, this study compares the extent of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities for a possible lifecycle bias. In contrast...
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underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … transmission channels along the income distribution in the United States indicate that the endowment effect slightly decreases in …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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This is the first paper that studies the effects of including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) in the … measure of income on intergenerational income mobility. Using national panel data sets for Australia, the United States and …-regional comparisons of intergenerational income mobility may be misleading, especially using tax data as imputed rent is rarely taxed …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study — whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socio-economic status. In this country comparison setting we find evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social...
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We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed...
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415678