Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123358 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Discussion Paper No. 06/01
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants in Switzerland. An IV approach based on data from two different data sets is used. As there is no adequate data on fathers, I revert to information from a period that differs from actual fathers' work period. This methodological approach leads to a bias of the resulting intergenerational elasticity. Nevertheless, cross-national comparison of income mobility is still possible. A comparison across subgroups of the Swiss population shows strong differences between Swiss and immigrants. Compared to natives, immigrants are more immobile. Also, substantial heterogeneity is found across different ethnic groups. Using quantile regression, mobility for natives is found to be similar for all income quantiles. Among immigrants, mobility is higher at the lower as well as at the upper end of the income distribution. These patterns differ from previous results from other countries.
Subjects: 
Income mobility
Intergenerational transmission
Immigrants
JEL: 
C23
I30
J61
J62
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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