The effect of parental background along the son's earnings distribution : does one model fit for all?

Michele Raitano (1) , Francesco Vona (2) , Claudia Vittori

1 UNIROMA - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome]
2 OFCE - Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques (Sciences Po)

This paper shows that returns to parental background increase along the sons' distribution in four EU countries. Although this indicates a common mechanism, substantial differences in returns’ steepness question the one-model-fits-all story.

Keywords: Intergenerational inequality; International comparison; Unconditional quantile regressions

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Economics and Finance; Humanities and Social Sciences; Sociology

Michele Raitano, Francesco Vona, Claudia Vittori. The effect of parental background along the son's earnings distribution : does one model fit for all?. 2015. ⟨hal-03459749⟩