Description of work in this area to follow shortly.

Main papers to date are:

• Bjorklund, A., Bratsberg, B., Eriksson, T., Jantti, M., Naylor, R.A., Raaum. O., Roed, K. and Osterbacka, E., “American Exceptionalism in a new light: a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the UK and the US,” University of Oslo Discussion Paper: Memorandum no. 34/2005, December 2005.
• Bratsberg, B., Roed, K., Raaum. O., R. A. Naylor, Jantti, M., Eriksson, T. and Osterbacka, E., “Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: consequences for cross-country comparisons,” Economic Journal, 2007, Vol. 117(519), pp. C72-92; presented at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, April 2006, Download.

• Bratsberg, B., Roed, K., Raaum. O., R. A. Naylor, Jantti, M., Eriksson, T. and Osterbacka, E., “Marital Sorting, Household Labour Supply, and Intergenerational Mobility across Countries,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol 7: Iss. 2 (Advances), Article 7, 2007. Download.

PPE Soc talk 30th November 2009