The intergenerational earnings and income mobility of canadian men:
Evidence from longitudinal income tax data
by Miles Corak and Andrew Heisz
Family and Labour Studies Division and Business and Labour Market Analysis
Division
Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, No. 113
The
objective of this paper is to examine the degree to which individuals "inherit"
their economic status, that is the degree of intergenerational mobility. What
is the extent of the economic advantage conferred to offspring of the rich? Will
the children with low-income parents also become low-income adults? The focus
of the analysis is on the relationship between the adult incomes of a cohort of
male teenagers and the incomes their fathers earned.
The results show that
there is a good deal of intergenerational income mobility among Canadian men.
Many individuals raised by low-income fathers go on to improve their standing
in life, and in general the correlation between father and son incomes is rather
low. However, this correlation varies across the income distribution, becoming
much higher at the very top of the income distribution.
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