Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe

by Miles Corak

Overview

What economic regimes offer children born into poor families the best hope of moving into higher income groups? This study analyzes and contrasts the experience of the more free market based North American and British economies with the more corporate state models of continental Europe. Written by leading economists from North America and Europe, the book combines innovative methodology with surprising conclusions. It ends with two more policy-oriented chapters which consider intergenerational mobility in a broader perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521827607
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/25/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.34(w) x 9.29(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Miles Corak is Director of Family and Labour Studies at Statistics Canada. He is also adjunct professor with the Department of Economics at Carleton University, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn) and during 2003/04 was a visiting researcher at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. He is the editor of Government Finances and Generational Equity (1998) and Labour Markets, Social Institutions, and the Future of Canada's Children (1998).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction M. Corak; 2. A model of intergenerational mobility variation over time and place G. Solon; 3. Equal opportunity and intergenerational mobility: going beyond intergenerational income transition matrices John E. Roemer; 4. Intergenerational mobility for whom? The experience of high and low earning sons in international perspective N. Grawe; 5. Trends in the intergenerational economic mobility of sons and daughters in the United States S. Mayer and L. Lopoo; 6. Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain J. Blanden, A. Goodman, P. Gregg and S. Machin; 7. Intergenerational mobility in Britain: new evidence from the British household panel survey J. Ermisch and M. Francesconi; 8. Nonlinear patterns of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States K. Couch and D. Lillard; 9. Family structure and labour market success A. Björklund, E. Österbacka, M. Jäntti, O. Raaum and T. Eriksson; 10. New evidence on the intergenerational correlations in welfare participation M. Page; 11. Intergenerational influences on the receipt of unemployment insurance in Canada and Sweden M. Corak, B. Gustafsson and T. Österberg; 12. Unequal opportunities and the mechanisms of social inheritance G. Esping-Andersen; Conclusion.