Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence among German Workers

Philipp Eisenhauer and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

No 134, SOEPpapers from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates an intergenerational earnings elasticity of 1/3 .

Keywords: Intergenerational Mobility; Lifecycle; Permanent Earnings; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J62 J32 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008
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Published in: Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung 41 (2008) 2-3, 119-137

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