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Marital sorting, household labor supply, and intergenerational earnings mobility across countries
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Raaum, Oddbjorn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Roed, Knut, Oesterbacka, Eva, Eriksson, Tor, Jaentti, Markus and Naylor, Robin (2007) Marital sorting, household labor supply, and intergenerational earnings mobility across countries. The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Volume 7 (Number 2). ISSN 1935-1682.
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Abstract
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find that, in contrast to all other groups, for married women mobility is approximately uniform across countries when estimates are based on women's own earnings. Defining offspring outcomes in terms of family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed those for the US and the UK for both men and women, single and married. Unlike in the Nordic countries, we find that married women with children and with husbands from affluent backgrounds tend to exhibit reduced labor supply in the US and the UK. In these countries, it is the combination of assortative mating and labor supply responses which weakens the association between married women's own earnings and their parents' earnings.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy | ||||
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | ||||
| ISSN: | 1935-1682 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2007 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 7 | ||||
| Number: | Number 2 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 49 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published |
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