Calendrier du 04 avril 2023
PSI-PSE (Petit Séminaire Informel de la Paris School of Economics) Seminar
Du 04/04/2023 de 17:00 à 18:00
R1-13
WEBER Giacomo (PSE)
On Coarseness in Organizations
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 04/04/2023 de 12:30 à 13:30
Salle R2-02
SORIA ESPIN Javier (PSE)
Intergenerational mobility and the role of internal migration: new evidence from Spain
In this paper, I provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility in Spain based on new, rich administrative data linking millions of parents and children through tax returns. Three main results arise. First, Spain is located somewhere in the middle between high-mobility countries such as Sweden or Switzerland and low-mobility ones such as the United States, Brazil, or Italy. Second, leveraging the high granularity of the data together with a unique dataset of municipality-level variables, I reveal a high degree of geographical variation explained, to a large extent, by differences in the local characteristics of the areas in which children grow up. Third, exploiting the Spanish context, one of the countries with the highest rates of internal migration in Europe, I show that this type of migration is a powerful driver of upward mobility, with an average effect that amounts to almost 20% of per capita national income (around 9 income percentiles) for low-income background children.