Intergenerational Mobility and Marital Sorting

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco; Siedler, Thomas

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01105.x

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“…This suggests a relatively low elasticity between the wife's own income and her parents-in-law family resources. Ermisch, Francesconi & Siedler (2006) report similar results for the UK.…”

Section: Cohort Trendssupporting

confidence: 75%

Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters: levels and trends

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Father's income is predicted on the basis of a rich set of variables including education, occupation and job characteristics and we discuss changes in the Japanese earnings structure for cohorts born between the early 1900s and the 1960s. Our main results indicate that the intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by international standards. We discuss the sensitivity of the IGE to using either personal or family income as the income variable for both fathers and children and perform some robustness analysis with respect to the first-step specification and to the age selection rule for children. We also examine changes across cohorts in the IGE. Results indicate that intergenerational mobility has been roughly stable over the last decades. Lastly, we estimate the intergenerational correlation of earnings. JEL Classification:D1, D3, J3

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“…This suggests a relatively low elasticity between the wife's own income and her parents-in-law family resources. Ermisch, Francesconi & Siedler (2006) report similar results for the UK.…”

Section: Cohort Trendssupporting

confidence: 75%

Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters: levels and trends

2013

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“…The UK estimate, however, is surprisingly low compared to those of the Nordic countries, although it is almost identical to the UK estimate in Ermisch et al (2006). An important caveat is that these estimates are downward biased if hours worked of husbands respond to their wives' wage, or if splitting the sample according to single status imparts bias; see the discussion in section 3.…”

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“…Moreover, the study finds that the individual earnings of husbands and wives are equally highly correlated with the incomes of their own parents as they are with incomes of their parents-in-law. In the same spirit, Ermisch et al (2006) argue that assortative matingi.e., the tendency of men and women with similar socioeconomic characteristics to marryplays an important role in explaining intergenerational earnings persistence in Germany and Britain, and assert that 40 to 50 percent of the covariance between parental and own permanent family incomes can be attributed to the person to whom one is married. Hence, marital sorting seems to play a key role in shaping intergenerational family income persistence.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Raaum¹,

Bratsberg²,

Røed³

et al. 2008

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find that, in contrast to all other groups, for married women mobility is approximately uniform across countries when estimates are based on women's own earnings. Defining offspring outcomes in terms of family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed those for the US and the UK for both men and women, single and married. Unlike in the Nordic countries, we find that married women with children and with husbands from affluent backgrounds tend to exhibit reduced labor supply in the US and the UK. In these countries, it is the combination of assortative mating and labor supply responses which weakens the association between married women's own earnings and their parents' earnings. JEL Classification:J3, J62

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“…Strikingly, they also show that individual earnings of husbands and wives are as highly correlated with the incomes of their in-laws as with the incomes of their own parents. Ermisch et al (2006) conclude that about 40% of family income persistence in the U.K. and Germany results from assortative mating.…”

Section: Estimates For Family Earningsmentioning

confidence: 99%