We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … conclude that part of the US-Europe difference, as well as the European North-South difference in labour mobility, is likely to … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

In this paper we investigate the existence and the size of territorial differences in Italian students’ mathematical … by the Italian Ministry of Education. We consider three different groups of educational inputs: individual …, cultural resources and aspirations. In addition to the standard gradient represented by parental education and occupation, we …

market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income …

depends crucially on the importance of mobility costs; (2) while higher homeownership may harm macroeconomic labour market …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight, height, and body mass index during early childhood. We find that … mobility is quite high prior to primary school and then declines noticeably. However, there are important sources of …

potential concerns: (i) lower levels of labor mobility, (ii) greater commuting times, and (iii) fewer new businesses. Our …

intergenerational mobility. The analysis finds evidence of a "Kuznets curve" for inequality of opportunity, and finds that the IEO index … is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …