Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data

Fiona Carmichael, Christian K. Darko, Marco Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen and William Siebert ()

Economics Letters, 2020, vol. 189, issue C

Abstract: We estimate the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income for the Netherlands using complete population data for around 177,000 28-year olds. We find that IGEs are much lower when actual individual income data are used rather than proxies or aggregates for income. Though low, daughters’ IGEs are higher than sons’ indicating lower income mobility for women.

Keywords: Intergenerational elasticity; Intergenerational mobility; Income; Equality of opportunity; Great Gatsby curve; Netherlands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2020.108996

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