Are the kids all
right? Intergenerational mobility and child well-being in Canada
by Miles
Corak
Family and Labour Studies Division
Analytical Studies Branch research
paper series, No. 171
A framework for thinking about intergenerational
mobility as it relates to the relationship between parent and child incomes as
well as evidence on the degree and sources of intergenerational mobility in Canada
is reviewed.
The major conclusion is that Canadian society is characterized
by a good deal of intergenerational mobility, and the available evidence suggests
that being raised in low-income does not pre-ordain children to low-income in
adulthood. Canada compares well in this regard to many other countries, being
characterized on average by more mobility than the U.S. or U.K. and on a par with
some of the most mobile nations. The sources for this pattern have to do with
access to high quality education, and high quality non-monetary investments in
children. However, there is no clear evidence linking the level of family income
to the nature of these investments.
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