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| Title: | | Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: a combination of equal opportunity and capitalistic dynasties  |
| Authors: | | Björklund, Anders Roine, Jesper Waldenström, Daniel |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 3801 |
| Abstract: | | This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain results for fractions as small as 0.1 percent of the population. Overall, mobility is lower for incomes than for earnings and it appears to decrease the higher up in the distribution one goes. In the case of incomes, however, we find that mobility decreases dramatically within the top percentile of the population. Our results suggest that Sweden, well-known for its egalitarian achievements, is a society where equality of opportunity for a large majority of wage earners coexists with capitalistic dynasties. |
| Subjects: | | Intergenerational income mobility top incomes earnings inequality income inequality welfare state non-linear regression quantile regression |
| JEL: | | D31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20081126766 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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