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12-02-2019 | Issue 1/2020

Intergenerational earnings mobility in Taiwan: 1990–2010

Journal:: Empirical Economics > Issue 1/2020

Authors:: Yu-Wei Luke Chu, Ming-Jen Lin

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In this paper, we study the intergenerational earnings mobility between fathers and sons in Taiwan. We apply the two-sample approach developed by Björklund and Jäntti (Am Econ Rev 87(5):1009–1018, 1997) and find that the intergenerational earnings elasticity in Taiwan was around 0.4–0.5 in both the early 1990s and the late 2000s. We also estimate the intergenerational rank association in earnings to have been around 0.3 in both periods. Intergenerational earnings mobility in Taiwan is similar to that in less mobile countries such as the USA, and it appears to remain stable during a period of rapid economic development.

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Title: Intergenerational earnings mobility in Taiwan: 1990–2010
Authors:: Yu-Wei Luke Chu
Ming-Jen Lin
Publication date: 12-02-2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-019-01637-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Journal: Empirical Economics Journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria
Issue 1/2020
Print ISSN: 0377-7332
Electronic ISSN: 1435-8921

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