Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States

Arbeitspapier

Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each country. Our sub-national analysis finds that the national border only partially distinguishes the close to one thousand regions we analyze within these two countries. The Canada-US border divides Central and Eastern Canada from the Great Lakes regions and the Northeast of the United States. At the same time some Canadian regions have more in common with the low mobility southern parts of the United States than with the rest of Canada, and the fact that these areas represent a much larger fraction of the American population also explains why mobility is lower in the United States.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Research Group on Human Capital - Working Paper Series ; No. 19-02

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: intergenerational mobility ; equality of opportunity ; geography

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Connolly, Marie ; Corak, Miles ; Haeck, Catherine
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Université du Québec à Montréal, École des sciences de la gestion (ESG UQAM), Groupe de recherche sur le capital humain (GRCH)
• (where): Montréal
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/209569
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET