Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Date & time

Oct 8, 2007, 12:00-1:00 pm EDT

Location

Third Floor Conference Room, Rm 3240 Weill Hall
Ann Arbor, MI
Overview
Markus Jäntti will discuss new research on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status.

Markus Jäntti is currently a Professor of Economics at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.

His research interest include; income distribution, applied econometrics, and labor economics.

The paper can be found clicking here.

This event is sponsored by the National Poverty Center.