The effect of parental background along the son's earnings distribution: does one model fit for all?

Michele Raitano, Francesco Vona and Claudia Vittori

SciencePo Working papers Main from HAL

Abstract: This paper shows that returns to parental background increase along the sons' distribution in four EU countries. Although this indicates a common mechanism, substantial differences in returns' steepness question the one-model-fits-all story.

Keywords: Intergenerational inequality; International comparison; Unconditional quantile regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-07-01
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03459749v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://sciencespo.hal.science/hal-03459749v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The effect of parental background along the son's earnings distribution: does one model fit for all ? (2015)
Working Paper: The effect of parental background along the son's earnings distribution: does one model fit for all? (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:spmain:hal-03459749

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in SciencePo Working papers Main from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Contact - Sciences Po Departement of Economics ().