Intergenerational Correlations in Labor Market Status: A Comparison of the United States and Germany
利用美国和德国的面板数据，比较了两国在收入、工作时间和教育方面的代际相关性，发现两国父子收入和工作时间的相关性相似，但德国女性的代际相关性较弱，而美国的教育代际相关性更强。
This paper uses data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and the German Socio economic Panel to calculate comparable measures of the intergenerational correlations of earnings, hours, and education in the United States and Germany.Our results indicate that there is remarkable similarity across the two countries in the correlations of earnings and of annual work hours of fathers and sons.All of the correlations which involve women appear to weaker in Germany than the United States, perhaps due to the greater integration of women in the United States into the labor market.We find weak correlations in earnings and work hours for parent-child pairs of different sexes in both countries.We also find intergenerational correlations in educational attainment are considerably stronger in the U.S.