low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update … perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in …, since high social mobility implies for low-income earners that effort is more likely to pay off …

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … the bottom when adults. We validate these estimates using two novel mobility measures that rank children and parents … without the need to impute informal income. We document substantial heterogeneity in mobility across individual …

In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the … universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as …, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (85%) of the growth in …

The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …

international voicing. Our results suggest that restrictions on mobility could result in increasing voicing, both within and between …

and Germany each have around half a million skilled migrants who could perform their jobs from their home countries. Most …

social mobility than under political regimes supported by the rich; pretax inequality is greater in the first case, but post …