Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia.

• Autores: Chelsea Murray, Robert Graham Clark, Silvia Mendolia, Peter Siminski
• Localización: Economic record, ISSN 0013-0249, Vol. 94, Nº. 307, 2018, págs. 445-468
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics Australia Survey, the estimated intergenerational income elasticity is 0.28. Correcting for attenuation bias raises this to 0.41. We estimate the rank correlation to be 0.27. We show that Australia has greater mobility than the USA, and this is not sensitive to methodological choices. We also show that spousal selection and family structure may be important determinants of income persistence across generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]