Estimating the intergenerational persistence of lifetime earnings with life course matching: Evidence from the PSID

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 592-597

  Gouskova, Elena ^a   Chiteji, Ngina ^b   Stafford, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Income mobility; Intergenerational earnings mobility; Lifecycle bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953121486     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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