The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data

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and Andreas Stich for their comments and suggestions. We would also like to thank Clive Loader for making the S-plus code used in the non-parametric analysis available to us, to acknowledge the help of Linda Standish and André St. Louis of Statistics Canada in constructing the data set, and to thank Sophie Lefebvre for her able research assistance.This paper represents the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Statistics Canada.

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