Intergenerational mobility measures in a bivariate normal model

2017/06/23 by Yonatan Berman, Berman, Yonatan
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #FOS: Economics and business #General Economics (econ.GN) #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies #Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1706.07783

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Abstract

We model the joint log-income distribution of parents and children and derive analytic expressions for canonical relative and absolute intergenerational mobility measures. We find that both types of mobility measures can be expressed as a function of the other.

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