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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in France: Is France More Mobile than the US?

Author(s) -

Arnaud Lefranc,

Trannoy

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

annales d économie et de statistique

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2272-6497

pISSN - 0769-489X

DOI - 10.2307/20079128

Subject(s) - scrutiny , earnings , daughter , demographic economics , social mobility , sample (material) , estimation , instrumental variable , demography , economics , sociology , political science , econometrics , social science , law , chemistry , accounting , management , chromatography

This paper examines the extent and evolution of intergenerational earnings mobility in France. We use data from five waves of the French Education-Training-Employment (FQP) surveys covering the period 1964 to 1993. Our estimation procedure follows Bjorklund and Jantti (1997)’s two-sample instrumental variable method. On our samples, the elasticity of son’s (respectively daughter’s) long-run income with respect to father’s long run income is around.4 (resp.3) with no significant change over the period under scrutiny. Comparing these estimates to results obtained from other studies suggest that intergenerational mobility is higher in France than in the United States and United Kingdom and lower than in Scandinavian countries.

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