A Comparison of Danish and International Findings on Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.

Intergenerational earnings mobility is an important issue, because the higher the mobility, the more opportunities are available to citizens and the easier it becomes to allocate economic resources in the most efficient way. The article provides a summary of studies of earnings mobility and makes a comparison with analyses on a Danish register data set. The earnings mobility between fathers/mothers and their sons/daughters is investigated, and shows that the father-son earnings persistence effect is found to be smaller in Denmark, Finland and Sweden than in the United States, but higher than in Norway.