Intergenerational income distribution before and after the great recession: winners and losers

ABSTRACT: Ageing process may affect intergenerational relations in different ways, including income distribution. Simultaneously, the global economy has undergone various crises. An important question is whether these crises impact the nexus between ageing and intergenerational income distribution. Finding an answer to this question is difficult in the literature; although the crisis-income inequality nexus is quite often investigated, this is not in the intergenerational context. This paper attempts to solve such puzzles using data covering 13 OECD countries in the period 1995–2018. The findings show that the relationship between the age structure of the population and intergenerational income distribution before and after the Great Recession of 2007–2009 was quite different. Actually, the Great Re

SUBMITTER: Chybalski F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9518940 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature