Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …

Germany during the last three decades. Hereby, we take advantage of information contained in 25 waves of the Socio …-Economic Panel. Our analysis shows that in Germany IOP declined immediately after reunification, increased in the first decade of the … individuals that resided in West-Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, whose fathers had a high occupational position, and …