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The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries. Greater Danish income mobility is largely a consequence of redistributional tax, transfer, and wage compression policies. While Danish social policies for children produce more favorable cognitive test scores for disadvantaged children, these do not translate into more favorable educational outcomes, partly because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10000

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Education: Government Policy
Education and Inequality
Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
Thema
social mobility
education
inequality
comparative analysis of systems

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Landersø, Rasmus
Heckman, James J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2016

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Landersø, Rasmus
  • Heckman, James J.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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