Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311093 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 2024/1
Publisher: 
European Commission, Ispra
Abstract: 
We reconstruct the genealogical tree of all individuals ever appearing in Dutch municipalities records since 1995. Using microdata from tax authorities, we compute a measure of their permanent earnings and assess the degree to which the intergenerational transmission process is heterogeneous. Our analysis relies on traditional estimates as well as model assuming a latent transmission of family endowments. In both cases, we show that offspring born into families belonging to the lowest percentiles of the income distribution show a higher degree of intergenerational persistence. The same applies when looking at heterogeneity in intergenerational mobility along the grandparental wealth, potentially suggesting the existence of poverty traps.
Subjects: 
intergenerational mobility
sibling correlations
inequality
JEL: 
J62
I24
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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