Abstract
This paper describes intergenerational earnings and income mobility among top-income households in Denmark. Access to administrative registers allowed us to look at very small fractions of the populations, and to distinguish between sons and daughters and to observe their spouses’ incomes. At the top of the income distribution we find a correlation of 0.763 between father and mother’s pooled income and that of their son and daughter-in-law’s pooled income, which indicates that money marries money.
Original language | English |
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Publication date | 22 Aug 2016 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Publication status | Published - 22 Aug 2016 |
Event | The 34th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) Dresden, Germany - Dresden, Germany Duration: 21 Aug 2016 → 27 Aug 2016 |
Conference
Conference | The 34th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth (IARIW) Dresden, Germany |
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Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Dresden |
Period | 21/08/2016 → 27/08/2016 |