Work-Limiting Disability and Intergenerational Economic Mobility.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether work-limiting disability may modify intergenerational economic mobility in the United States.

Methods

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, common metrics of intergenerational mobility are estimated by parent work-limiting disability. These include rank slope coefficients capturing persistence of socioeconomic status and absolute upward economic mobility capturing expected child outcomes.

Results

Parent-child pairs with work-limiting disability experience five to twelve percentiles lower absolute economic mobility at the 25^th percentile of parent income. More severe and/or chronic conditions have larger disparities and higher parent income is associated with smaller disparities. Women may experience larger mobility differenc

SUBMITTER: Jajtner KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7676749 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature