Heritability of lifetime earnings

Ari Hyytinen; Pekka Ilmakunnas; Edvard Johansson; Otto Toivanen

doi:10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x

Heritability of lifetime earnings

Ari Hyytinen, Pekka Ilmakunnas^*, Edvard Johansson, Otto Toivanen

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Using twenty years of earnings data on Finnish twins, we find that about 40% of the variance of women’s and little more than half of men’s lifetime labour earnings are linked to genetic factors. The contribution of the shared environment is negligible. We show that the result is robust to using alternative definitions of earnings, to adjusting for the role of education, and to measurement errors in the measure of genetic relatedness.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Sivut	319-335
Julkaisu	JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
Vuosikerta	17
Numero	3
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä	2019
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x
Tila	Julkaistu - syysk. 2019
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Hyytinen2019_Article_HeritabilityOfLifetimeEarningsFinal published version, 351 KBLisenssi: CC BY

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Ilmakunnas, P.
01/09/2015 → 31/12/2017
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Heritability of lifetime earnings

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