This paper proposes an econometric methodology to deal with life cycle earnings and mobility among discrete earnings … and compare our approach to Markov chain models of income mobility …

This paper examines the mobility of individuals through the wage and earnings distributions. This is of extreme … importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the … United States over the last few decades. The measures of wage and earnings mobility analyzed are based on data for …

different race is 20% lower for students. Looking at more broad measures of urban mobility, we find that students spend more …. Finally, we find correlational evidence that neighborhoods with more geographic mobility today also had more intergenerational … income mobility in the past. We hope future work will more rigorously test the hypothesis that different geographic mobility …

The U.S. both tolerates more inequality than Europe and believes its economic mobility is greater than Europe's. These … spending. In fact, the U.S. and Europe had roughly equal rates of inter-generational occupational mobility in the late ….S. mobility exceeded British mobility was erased by the 1950s, as U.S. mobility fell compared to its nineteenth century levels …

a trap has some merit, but individual characteristics played an important role in mobility. In all periods, some farmers … route to upward mobility, particularly for blacks, before large-scale migration from rural to urban places …

experienced by the immigrant household across generations. This paper documents the evidence on social mobility in the immigrant …

This paper analyzes the intergenerational mobility of immigrants. Using the 1940-1970 Censuses, the study reveals an …

estimate the causal effect of migration on educational mobility through cross-national marriage. To control for selective …

migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … mobility in Argentina and immigration contributed positively to the process of economic development. We then turn our focus to … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of …