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Intergenerational economic mobility in Korea using a quantile regression analysis

한국의 세대 간 경제적 이동성 - 분위수회귀분석을 중심으로 -

  • Richey, Jeremiah (School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Jeong, Kiho (School of Economics and Trade, Kyungpook National University)
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  • 정기호 (경북대학교 경제통상학부)
  • Received : 2014.04.24
  • Accepted : 2014.06.09
  • Published : 2014.07.31
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Abstract

This study uses a quantile regression analysis to investigate intergenerational economic mobility in Korea. The analysis is based on data from the 1st through 11th waves of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) conducted from 1998-2008. The household nature of the data allows us to link parents' incomes to children's incomes at different points in time. Using a quantile regression analysis instead of mean one reveals that the effect of fathers' earnings are different across the conditional distribution of sons' earnings, particularly being larger on the upper quantile than on the lower quantile. After controlling effect of sons' college education by including a dummy variable for the degree, however, the pattern among quantile effects for fathers' earnings is no longer clear. Instead a new pattern emerges that education has a much larger effect on the upper quantiles than on the lower ones. Using nonparametric estimates of conditional density curves based on the quantile regression results, we derive some interesting features in graphical forms, which are not obvious in numerical analysis.

본 연구는 분위수회귀분석을 이용하여 한국의 세대 간 경제적 이동성을 분석한다. 분석에는 1998년부터 2008년까지의 한국노동패널조사 (KLIPS) 자료가 이용되었다. 분석결과, (1) 부모 소득영향력은 자녀소득의 조건부분포의 하위 분위수에서는 상대적으로 작고 상위 분위수로 갈수록 더 커지는 것으로 나타났다. 이것은 자녀소득 분포의 상위분위수로 갈수록 세대 간 경제적 이동성은 떨어지며 가구별 경제적 신분이 세대에 걸쳐 고착될 가능성이 높아지는 것을 의미한다. (2) 한편 교육효과를 제어하면 이러한 부모 소득 영향력은 감소하였다. (3) 대학교육 효과는 소득분포의 상위 분위수로 갈수록 더 높아져서 자녀의 대학교육이 세대 간에 소득이 이전되는 중요한 통로인 것으로 나타났다. (4) 마지막으로 분위수회귀분석결과로부터 자녀소득의 조건부분포를 비모수적으로 추정하고 추정된 곡선 그림을 이용하여 추가적인 시각적 특징들을 도출하였다.

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