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'And Yet, It Moves': Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Italy

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  • Gianluca Violante

    (NYU)

  • Alberto Polo

    (NYU)

  • Paolo Acciari

    (Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance)

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This paper provides the first comprehensive measurement for Italy of the degree of intergenerational economic mobility (IEM). The empirical analysis is based on unique tax record data for a 10 percent sample of the Italian tax payers (over 2M observations) where one can link the SSN of parents in 1998-1999 to the SSN of their children roughly 15 years later. We report a number of different measures of IEM such as the intergenerational elasticity, the rank-rank relationship, and upward and downward directional rank mobility. We document how these measures vary geographically across regions and across family types. We compare our methodology with the `informational content of surnames' approach developed by Guell and Rodriguez-Mora and recently applied to Italian data. We demonstrate that, geographically, IEM is strongly correlated to a number of socio-economic indicators, in particularly quality of public schooling. Finally, we compare our estimates of intergenerational income mobility with estimates using the same methodology for the U.S., Canada, Sweden, and Denmark.

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  • Gianluca Violante & Alberto Polo & Paolo Acciari, 2016. "'And Yet, It Moves': Intergenerational Economic Mobility in Italy," 2016 Meeting Papers 1086, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed016:1086
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    Cited by:

    1. Bloise, Francesco & Chironi, Daniela & Pianta, Mario, 2019. "Inequality and elections in Italian regions," MPRA Paper 96416, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Luigi Cannari & Giovanni D�Alessio, "undated". "Education, income and wealth: persistence across generations in Italy," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 476, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.

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    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics

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