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Marital sorting, household labour supply, and intergenerational mobility across countries
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Raaum, Oddbjørn , Bratsberg, Bernt , Røed, Knut , Österbacka, Eva, Eriksson, Tor , Jäntti, Markus and Naylor, Robin Andrew, 1959- (2007) Marital sorting, household labour supply, and intergenerational mobility across countries. Discussion Paper. Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn.
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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: | Working or Discussion Paper (Discussion Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wages, Occupational mobility, Intergenerational relations |
| Series Name: | Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit) |
| Publisher: | Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit |
| Place of Publication: | Bonn |
| Date: | September 2007 |
| Number: | No.3037 |
| Number of Pages: | 58 |
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
| Description: | Working paper |
| Adapted As: | Bratsberg, B., et al. (2007). The BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 7(2), Advances. |
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