This article gives various estimates of intergenerational earnings
mobility by applying different earning periods, age brackets, and earning
components. The methodology enables us to investigate how sensitive
results are to different delimitations and, thereby, to make more
accurate international comparisons of intergenerational earnings mobility.
We find that intergenerational earnings mobility is found to be
substantially lower when hourly wage rates rather than annual earnings
are used, whether the latter are inclusive or exclusive of public transfers.
Moreover, when the same specifications are applied for Denmark
as for other countries, we find that intergenerational earnings mobility
from father to son in Denmark is on the same level as in Sweden,
Norway, and Finland, whereas the intergenerational earnings mobility
in all the Nordic countries is found to be higher than in the United
Kingdom and the United States.