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. 2026 Jul 13;11:1799499. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1799499

Table 1.

Number of intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) observations by country.

Countries Frequency Percent
Australia 12 9.23
Brazil 2 1.54
Canada 21 16.15
Chile 1 0.77
Denmark 18 13.85
Finland 4 3.08
France 3 2.31
Germany 4 3.08
Italy 3 2.31
Japan 1 0.77
New Zealand 1 0.77
Norway 4 3.08
Peru 1 0.77
Singapore 1 0.77
South Africa 2 1.54
Spain 9 6.92
Sweden 4 3.08
Switzerland 1 0.77
United Kingdom 13 10.00
United States 25 19.23
Total 130 100.00

Database generated by the authors with: (1) measure of intergenerational income elasticity from a series of previously published studies (Amaral et al., 2019); and (2) proportion of immigrants and proportion of emigrants from the Database on Immigrants in OECD and non-OECD Countries (DIOC) for reference years 2000–2001 (https://www.oecd.org/els/mig/dioc.htm).