And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy

Paolo Acciari, Alberto Polo and Giovanni L. Violante

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, vol. 14, issue 3, 118-63

Abstract: We estimate intergenerational income mobility in Italy using administrative data from tax returns. Our estimates of mobility are higher than prior work using survey data and indirect methods. The rank-rank slope of parent-child income is 0.22, compared to 0.18 in Denmark and 0.34 in the United States. The probability that a child reaches the top quintile of the national income distribution starting from a family in the bottom quintile is 0.11. We uncover substantial geographical variation: upward mobility is much stronger in northern Italy, where provinces have higher measured school quality, more stable families, and more favorable labor market conditions.

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Date: 2022
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