TY - JOUR
T1 - Intergenerational mobility of earnings and income in Japan
AU - Ueda, Atsuko
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∗The author thanks the editor and two anonymous referees whose comments significantly improved the paper. The author also thanks the Institute for Research on Household Economics for providing access to microdata from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers. This research is financially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research #20530183.
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PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This paper presents estimates on the intergenerational mobility of economic status in Japan. We estimate the intergenerational elasticity of the earnings and income of offspring with respect to parental income using microdata from the 1993-2004 rounds of the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers. The estimated intergenerational elasticity using predicted parental income is 0.41-0.46 for married sons, 0.30-0.38 for married daughters, and marginally less than 0.30 for single daughters. A downward trend in elasticity is also observed. Quantile regression does not suggest any particular relation between elasticity and quantiles. A nonlinear analysis of the relation between parental log income and log earnings of offspring illustrates an S-shaped relation for married sons and single daughters, and a linear relation for married daughters.
AB - This paper presents estimates on the intergenerational mobility of economic status in Japan. We estimate the intergenerational elasticity of the earnings and income of offspring with respect to parental income using microdata from the 1993-2004 rounds of the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers. The estimated intergenerational elasticity using predicted parental income is 0.41-0.46 for married sons, 0.30-0.38 for married daughters, and marginally less than 0.30 for single daughters. A downward trend in elasticity is also observed. Quantile regression does not suggest any particular relation between elasticity and quantiles. A nonlinear analysis of the relation between parental log income and log earnings of offspring illustrates an S-shaped relation for married sons and single daughters, and a linear relation for married daughters.
KW - Intergenerational mobility
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U2 - 10.2202/1935-1682.2203
DO - 10.2202/1935-1682.2203
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:75249084959
VL - 9
JO - B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
JF - B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
SN - 1935-1682
IS - 1
M1 - 54
ER -