Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …

This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from … normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …, there is no evidence of an added-worker effect but government insurance and income pooling can mitigate the pass-through of …

nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict … informal income. The data reveal a much higher degree of persistence than previous estimates available for developed economies …

in unearned income, we exploit a policy reform that lowered survivor pensions in Austria. Men widowed after the survivor …We study the effect of lower unearned income on labor supply. To identify the causal effect of an unexpected reduction … to a labor supply elasticity at the extensive margin with respect to the changes in total income of about –0.9 to –1.3 …

proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …

theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …