The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian

Miles Corak and Andrew Heisz
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Andrew Heisz: Statistics Canada

Labor and Demography from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than income mobility, but non- parametric techniques uncover significant non-linearities in both of these relationships. Intergenerational earnings mobilty is greater at the lower end of the income distribution than at the upper end, and displays an inverted V-shape elsewhere. Intergenerational income mobility follows roughly the same pattern, but is much lower at the top of the income distribution.

Keywords: Intergenerational Income Mobility; Income Distribution; Nonparametric regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 1998-08-10
Note: Type of Document - pdf; prepared on IBM PC - PC; to print on HP; pages: 49 ; figures: included. Paper presented to the 1998 meetings of the SOLE
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