Measuring Absolute Income Mobility: Lessons from North America and Europet

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Manduca, Robert; Hell, Maximilian; Adermon, Adrian; Blanden, Jo; Bratberg, Espen; Gielen, Anne C.; van Kippersluis, Hans; Lee, Keunbok; Machin, Stephen; Munk, Martin D.; Nybom, Martin; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Rahman, Sumaiya; Sirnio, Outi
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Stanford University; University of Surrey; University of Bergen; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Uppsala University; Statistics Canada
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20210137
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 1-30
• 关键词: life-cycle bias; intergenerational mobility; TRENDS; INEQUALITY; families; Germany; decline; norway

摘要

We use linked parent-child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly used copula and marginals approximation methods perform well across countries in our sample, and the greatest challenges to their accuracy stem not from assumptions about relative mobility rates over time but from the use of nonrepresentative marginal income distributions. We also provide a multicountry analysis of sensitivity to specification decisions related to age of income measurement, income concept, family structure, and price index. (JEL D31, G51, I31, J12, J31, J62)