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elasticity.txt
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Coefficients of intergenerational elasticity between parents’ and
children’s income
| Base case | Optimistic | Pessimistic
| | (high mobility)| (low mobility)
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Nordic European countries | 0.2 | 0.15 | 0.3
and Canada | | |
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Europe (except nordic | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5
countries) | | |
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Australia/New Zealand/USA | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.5
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Asia | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6
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Latin America/Africa | 0.66 | 0.5 | 0.9
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Extrapolations from these sources :
Lam, David and Robert Schoeni (1993), “Effects of family background on
earnings and returns to schooling: Evidence from Brazil”, Journal of Political Economy,
vol. 110, pp. 710-740.
Grawe, Nathan (2001), “Intergenerational mobility in the US and abroad:
Quantile and mean regression measures”, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Economics,
University of Chicago.
Ferreira, Sergio Guimaraes and Fernando A. Veloso (2006), “Intergenerational
mobility of wages in Brazil”, Brazilian Review of Econometrics, vol. 26., No. 2
(November), pp. 181-211.
Ng, Irene, Xiaoyi Shen and Kong Weng Ho (2008), “Intergenerational income
mobility in Singapore and the United States, Nanyang Technological University, School
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Economic Growth Centre Working paper 0803.