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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply,
and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility
across Countries
By Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti,
Robin Naylor
Memorandum 17/2007
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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. |
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J3, J62 |
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1391 Strategic Institute Program on Labor Market and Pension Research
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