TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ermisch, John
AU  - Francesconi, Marco
AU  - Siedler, Thomas
        TI  - Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
        PY  - 2005/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1847
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1847
        AB  - We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by assortative mating. We find that assortative mating plays an important role. On average about 40-50% of the covariance between parents' and own permanent family income can be attributed to the person to whom one is married. This effect is driven by strong spouse correlations in human capital, which are larger in Germany than Britain.
        KW  - intergenerational links
KW  - marriage market
KW  - occupational prestige
KW  - assortative mating
        ER  -