Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Philipp Eisenhauer

No 08-014, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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 that about 1/3 of the earnings differential in the labor market has been passed on from the generation of fathers to their sons.

Keywords: Intergenerational Mobility; Lifecycle; Permanent Earnings; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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