Family, Community and Long-Term Socio-Economic Inequality: Evidence from Siblings and Youth Peers
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Using administrative data for the population of Danish men and women, we develop an empirical model which accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We provide the first decomposition of the sibling correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics and extending the analysis to consider other outcomes. We find that family is the most important factor influencing sibling correlations of earnings, education and unemployment. Community background matters for shaping the sibling correlation of earnings and unemployment early in the working life, but its importance quickly diminishes.
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- Authors
- Bingley, P., Cappellari, L., & Tatsiramos, K.
- Affiliations
- VIVE - The Danish Center for Social Science Research (DK)
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
- University of Luxembourg (LU)
- Corresponding author
- Cappellari, Lorenzo
- Venue
- The Economic Journal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2020-11-05
- Volume
- 131
- Issue
- 636
- Pages
- 1515-1554
- ISSN
- 0013-0133 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-0297
- OpenAlex
- W3097223093
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 2.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- orbilu.uni.lu
- Licence
- Locations
- The Economic Journal (publishedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Copenhagen Business School
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Keywords
- family background, socioeconomic disparities, earnings dynamics, unemployment, life-cycle earnings, Danish population
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