METHODS FOR SUMMARIZING AND COMPARING WEALTH DISTRIBUTIONS (2008)
Stephen P. Jenkins, Markus Jäntti
Number 2005-05
Finlands Banks Diskussionsunderlag, Bertil Holmlund, Pekka Ilmakunnas, Seija Ilmakunnas, Markus Jäntti, Jaakko Ki, ...
Labour taxation and employment in trade union models: A partial survey
Marital sorting, household labour supply, and intergenerational mobility across countries (2007)
Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka, Eva, Eriksson, Tor, Jäntti, Markus, ...
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...
Martikainen, Pekka, Mäki, Netta, Jäntti, Markus
Unemployment is strongly associated with mortality on the individual level. The reasons for this association are not fully established. The authors estimated the effects of unemployment and workplace...
Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Jäntti, Markus, Eriksson, Tor Viking, ...
Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka, Eva, Eriksson, Tor Viking, Jäntti, Markus, ...
Martikainen, Pekka, Mäki, Netta, Jäntti, Markus
Unemployment is strongly associated with mortality on the individual level. The reasons for this association are not fully established. The authors estimated the effects of unemployment and workplace...
Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Jäntti, Markus, Eriksson, Tor, ...
We show that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland, and Norway, unlike those for the US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log...
Jäntti, Markus, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Österbacka, Eva, ...
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and...
Cross National Comparisons of Levels and Trends in Inequality (1997)
Peter Gottschalk, Peter Gottschalk, Timothy M. Smeeding, Timothy M. Smeeding, Markus Jäntti, Stephen Jenkins, ...
This article reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of earnings and income inequality in OECD countries. It begins with a series of stylized facts which are then examined and supported by...
Markus Jäntti, Eva Österbacka, Oddbjörn Raaum, Tor Eriksson, Anders Björklund
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother...
Alleviating unemployment traps in Finland: Can the efficiency-equity trade-off be avoided?
Pertti Honkanen, Markus Jäntti, Jukka Pirttilä
Using a new comprehensive tax-benefit model, JUTTA, this paper examines how labour supply incentives – both to participate in the labour force (the “extensive” margin) and to supply extra hours...
Intergenerational mobility of socio-economic status in comparative perspective
Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti
This paper reviews three strands of literature on socio-economic intergenerational mobility. The first is a mostly recent and rapidly growing economics literature that measures mobility in labour...
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka , Eva, Eriksson, Tor, Jäntti, Markus, ...
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...
Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration
Sarvimäki, Matti, Uusitalo, Roope, Jäntti, Markus
We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual-level panel data on forced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to...
IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?
Björklund, Anders, Hederos Eriksson, Karin, Jäntti, Markus
For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities....
Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration
Markus Jäntti, Matti Sarvimäki, Roope Uusitalo
We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual level panel data onforced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth ofits territory to the...
Björklund, Anders, Jäntti, Markus, Lindquist, Matthew J.
We investigate if the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for men born between 1932 and 1968. Our main finding is that the share of the variance in long-run income...
Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon
This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we...
Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries
Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, ...
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...