Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Butikofer, Aline; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G.
• 署名单位: Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); European Central Bank; Bank of Italy; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01256
• 发表日期: 2025-03
• 页码: 306-323
• 关键词: EMPIRICAL-ANALYSIS; UNITED-STATES; income; opportunity; canada; IMPACT

摘要

This paper demonstrates that a large economic shock such as an oil boom increases intergenerational earnings mobility among directly affected men, mostly through increased bottom-up mobility, but not for women. Preexisting local differences in mobility or shifts in the earnings distributions do not drive these findings. Instead, changes in relative earnings paid to workers with different skills offer the best explanation. Moreover, we document that intergenerational mobility is significantly higher for the indirectly affected third generation and that the oil boom broke the earnings link between first- and third-generation men.