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The Canadian Geography of Intergenerational Income Mobility

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ID9707362
AuthorsMiles Corak (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY 10016, USA, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume130
Issue631
Pages2134-2174
Publication date2020-10-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ej/uez019
OpenAlexW2947666646
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited48

Intergenerational income mobility varies significantly across Canada, with the 266 Census Divisions in the 1986 Census clustering into five non-contiguous regions. Nine complementary indicators are calculated for each Census Division using administrative data on a cohort of men and women born between 1963 and 1970. Collectively these indicators underscore the importance of simultaneously examining different dimensions of intergenerational mobility and also show that higher mobility is most strongly associated with less income inequality in the bottom half of the income distribution

Census · Cohort · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Income distribution · Inequality · Population · Social mobility · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

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Unique citing works34
Citations per year4,86
Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 33

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