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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in France: Is France More Mobile than the US?

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  • Arnaud Lefranc

    (THEMA - Théorie économique, modélisation et applications - UCP - Université de Cergy Pontoise - Université Paris-Seine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Alain Trannoy

    (EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

Abstract

– This paper examines the extent and evolution of intergenerational earnings mobility in France. We use data from fi ve waves of the French Education-Training-Employment (FQP) surveys covering the period 1964 to 1993. Our estimation procedure follows BJÖRKLUND and JÄNTTI (1997)'s two-sample instrumental variable method. On our samples, the elasticity of son's (respectively daughter's) long-run income with respect to father's long run income is around .4 (resp. .3) with no signifi cant change over the period under scrutiny. Comparing these estimates to results obtained from other studies suggests that intergenerational mobility is higher in France than in the United States and United Kingdom and lower than in Scandinavian countries. La mobilité intergénérationnelle de revenu en France : une mobilité plus forte qu'aux États-Unis ? RÉSUMÉ. – Cet article estime l'étendue de la mobilité intergénérationnelle de revenu en France, à partir des cinq vagues des enquêtes Formation-Qualifi cation-Profession (FQP) disponibles sur la période 1964-1993. Nous utilisons la procédure d'estimation par variables instrumentales sur deux échantillons de BJÖRKUND et JÄNTTI (1997). L'élasticité estimée du revenu des fi ls (respectivement des fi lles) par rapport au revenu de leur père est de 0.4 (resp. 0.3). La mobilité intergénérationnelle de revenu s'avère plus forte en France qu'aux États-Unis et plus faible que dans les pays scandinaves. ANNALES D'ÉCONOMIE ET DE STATISTIQUE. – N° 78 – 2005 We are grateful to Sam Bowles, Nicolas Gravel, Eric Maurin, Louis-André Vallet and conference participants at ESPE and Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée for helpful comments. We also thank Louis-André Vallet for his help in the implementation of the Erikson and Goldthorpe classifi cation. Financial support from Commissariat Général au Plan is gratefully acknowledged. † A.

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  • Arnaud Lefranc & Alain Trannoy, 2005. "Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in France: Is France More Mobile than the US?," Post-Print hal-01651123, HAL.
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    DOI: 10.2307/20079128
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