Trends in intergenerational mobility across offspring's earnings distribution in Norway

Industrial Relations

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 112-129

  Bratberg, Espen ^a   Nilsen, Øivind Anti ^b   Vaage, Kjell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; LABOR MOBILITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33845703629     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2007.00459.x     Document Type: Article

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