Lower intergenerational income mobility for blacks is a likely cause behind the persistent interracial gap in economic … status in the United States. However, few studies have analyzed black-white differences in intergenerational income mobility … traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles. We then introduce a new measure of upward mobility which …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there is limited knowledge about … main analysis uses income tax data from Australia to produce a comprehensive set of empirical estimates for each of 19 …