Intergenerational earnings mobility in Taiwan

Fengye Sun () and Atsuko Ueda ()
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Fengye Sun: Waseda University
Atsuko Ueda: Waseda University

Economics Bulletin, 2015, vol. 35, issue 1, 187-197

Abstract: This study aims to estimate the extent of intergenerational mobility of earnings in Taiwan. The intergenerational elasticity of a child's earnings with respect to its parent's earnings is estimated by using household micro-data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) in Taiwan. We apply an estimation method using the predicted earnings of parents. The estimation result suggests that the elasticity for sons is 0.25–0.3 and that for daughters is roughly 0.4. The estimate looks intermediate or moderately low from an international perspective, suggesting that Taiwan is a moderately mobile society.

Keywords: intergenerational mobility; intergenerational transmission; inequality; Taiwan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03-11
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