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- Title
Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in France, 19th and 20th Century.
- Authors
Bourdieu, Jérôme; Kesztenbaum, Lionel; Postel‐Vinay, Gilles; Suwa‐Eisenmann, Akiko
- Abstract
This paper examines intergenerational wealth mobility between fathers and children in France between 1848 and 1960. Considering wealth mobility in the long run requires taking into account not only positional mobility (that is, how families move within a given distribution of wealth), but also structural mobility induced by changes in the distribution of wealth. Such changes are related to two structural phenomena: in the nineteenth century, the rising number of individuals leaving no estate at death and, after World War I, the decline in the number of the very rich who could live off their wealth. The paper studies the movements between these groups and estimates the intergenerational elasticity of wealth, taking into account the persistence at the bottom and at the top.
- Subjects
INTERGENERATIONAL mobility; INCOME inequality; ECONOMIC mobility; WEALTH; FRENCH economic policy
- Publication
Review of Income & Wealth, 2019, Vol 65, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0034-6586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/roiw.12336