TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Björklund, Anders
AU  - Roine, Jesper
AU  - Waldenström, Daniel
        TI  - Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties
        PY  - 2008/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3801
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3801
        AB  - This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain results for fractions as small as 0.1 percent of the population. Overall, mobility is lower for incomes than for earnings and it appears to decrease the higher up in the distribution one goes. In the case of incomes, however, we find that mobility decreases dramatically within the top percentile of the population. Our results suggest that Sweden, well-known for its egalitarian achievements, is a society where equality of opportunity for a large majority of wage earners coexists with capitalistic dynasties.
        KW  - income inequality
KW  - earnings inequality
KW  - top incomes
KW  - intergenerational income mobility
KW  - welfare state
KW  - non-linear regression
KW  - quantile regression
        ER  -