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Author: Blanden, Jo
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1. Blanden, Jo
International Evidence on Intergenerational Mobility
Working Paper, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London, England, May 2005.
Also: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/stokerochford/papers/new/blanden.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men
Publisher: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics & Political Science
Keyword(s): Canada, Canadian; Canadian Intergenerational Income Data (IID); Cross-national Analysis; German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP); Germany, German; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

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This paper compares evidence on the extent of intergenerational mobility of males for four countries: the United Kingdom; the United States, West Germany and Canada. I am able to estimate changes in intergenerational mobility in the UK and US in a comparable way and find that whilst there is convincing evidence that intergenerational mobility has been falling in the UK a careful examination of the US reveals very little change there. Unfortunately there is insufficient data to explore changes in mobility for West Germany and Canada. Evidence on the levels of mobility in these countries indicate that intergenerational mobility is higher in Canada than in the other countries, and mobility in West Germany is at a similar level to the US and UK. In general, small sample sizes stand in the way of drawing strong conclusions; however the results provide broad support for the findings of the current, less systematic, literature on international comparisons of intergenerational mobility. Preliminary - Please do not quote without the author's permission.
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Blanden, Jo. "International Evidence on Intergenerational Mobility." Working Paper, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London, England, May 2005.