mobility by the two groups of workers sustains the second best optimum. …

inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what …One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to …

This study explains the evolution of wage inequality over the last 30 years and supports this explanation with evidence … the role of ability, technological progress increases wage inequality within each group of education as well as between … education groups. Inasmuch as education is an irreversible investment, the rise in within group inequality boosts up the rise of …

contract interpretation, while US regional labour markets are characterized by high regional mobility, rendering insurance less …

implies absence of consumption mobility between any two time periods. This implication requires knowledge of the evolution of … appropriate non-parametric test and find substantial mobility of consumption even controlling for possible preference shifts and …

systems of increasing factor mobility. In particular, we expect the extent of redistribution (both intra- and … intergenerational) in national pension systems to decrease. The latter result should hold true even in the presence of mobility limited … of mobility: not only mobility at the beginning of the working life, but also mobility during the working career and …

In this paper, I analyse the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … transition, regional disparities in unemployment rates and earnings have increased. More importantly, labour mobility has little …

, INSEE, and builds a time series on various mobility indices for the first time. Using six mobility concepts, we chart wage … mobility trends for the working population and compare mobility rates in various population subgroups differentiated by gender …, and education. We then compare mobility trends over time for each population subgroup. Next, we relate the extent of …