Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany
Guido Neidhöfer/ Maximilian Stockhausen in review of income and wealth Externe Veröffentlichung 22. Oktober 2018 Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany
Using harmonized household survey data, we analyze long-run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic status.
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Guido Neidhöfer/ Maximilian Stockhausen in review of income and wealth Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW)
Using harmonized household survey data, we analyze long-run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic status.
In this country comparison setting, we find evidence against a universal law of social mobility. Our results show that the long-run persistence of socioeconomic status and the validity of a first-order Markov chain in the intergenerational transmission of human capital is countryspecific. Furthermore, we find that the direct and independent effect of grandparents_ social status on grandchildren_s status tends to vary by gender and institutional context.
Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany
Guido Neidhöfer/ Maximilian Stockhausen in review of income and wealth Externe Veröffentlichung 22. Oktober 2018
Guido Neidhöfer/ Maximilian Stockhausen: Dynastic Inequality Compared – Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany
Matthias Diermeier / Madeleine F. Fischer / Judith Niehues in SOEP papers Externe Veröffentlichung 20. März 2023
Punching up or Punching down?: How Stereotyping the Rich and the Poor Impacts Redistributive Preferences in Germany
Redistribution and the welfare state have been linked by academic discourse to narratives that portray specific societal groups as ‘deserving’ or ‘undeserving’. The present analysis contributes to this scholarship in a twofold manner.
Matthias Diermeier / Madeleine F. Fischer / Judith Niehues in SOEP papers IW
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