intergenerational social mobility. …

care work related to this event contribute to the downward mobility experienced by women in a highly flexible labour market …

location and school quality, increasing intergenerational mobility by 2.5%. On the other hand, the college policy decreases … intergenerational mobility by 0.7%: when the high-quality college reserves seats for low-income students, it makes college more …-sorting and college affirmative action leads to minimal changes in upwards mobility. …

This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By … grandparents, parents, and children born between 1890 and 1990. We estimate five intergenerational mobility (IGM) measures, finding … sticky persistence provides a better approximation for describing mobility across multiple generations in our sample; (iii …

Wage mobility reduces the persistence of wage inequality. We develop a framework to quantify the contribution of … employer-to-employer movers to aggregate wage mobility. Using three decades of German social security data, we find that … inequality increased while aggregate wage mobility decreased. Employer-to-employer movers exhibit higher wage mobility, mainly …

This study provides the first absolute income mobility estimates for postwar Germany. Using various micro data sources …, we uncover a steep decline in absolute mobility rates from 81 percent to 59 percent for children's birth cohorts 1962 … point drop in absolute income mobility (-31pp). Our counterfactual analysis shows that lower economic growth rates and …