Corak, Miles; Lindquist, Matthew J.; Mazumder, Bhashkar - In: Labour Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 185-200
We use new estimators of directional rank mobility developed by Bhattacharya and Mazumder (2011) to compare rates of … upward and downward intergenerational mobility across three countries: Canada, Sweden and the United States. These measures … overcome some of the limitations of traditional measures of intergenerational mobility such as the intergenerational elasticity …