Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
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Oddbjørn Raaum
Abstract
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.
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- Advances Article
- Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
- Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
- The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends
- Contributions Article
- Comparable Estimates of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Italy
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- Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Italy
- Intergenerational Mobility in Australia
- Children of the Post-Communist Transition: Age at the Time of the Parents' Job Loss and Dropping Out of Secondary School
- Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Changes across Cohorts in Britain
- Topics Article
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