Intergenerational Economic Mobility around the World
Introduction
This special issue is edited by Gary Solon of Michigan State University and refereed as any other issue of our journal. The issue features international perspectives on the extent and nature of the intergenerational transmission of economic status.
Advances
Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents
Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, and Gary Solon
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, and Robin A. Naylor
The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends
Tom Hertz, Tamara Jayasundera, Patrizio Piraino, Sibel Selcuk, Nicole Smith, and Alina Verashchagina
Contributions
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Italy
Sauro Mocetti
Intergenerational Mobility in Australia
Andrew Leigh
Children of the Post-Communist Transition: Age at the Time of the Parents' Job Loss and Dropping Out of Secondary School
Gabor Kertesi and Gabor Kezdi
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Changes across Cohorts in Britain
Cheti Nicoletti and John F. Ermisch