lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using … survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect of increased Chinese import …, indicating that the shock had a negative impact on intergenerational mobility. …

's or father's job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the … labor supply of other household members. However, it increases the likelihood of spouses to switch to informal and … downgraded employment, and of children to drop-out from education. While effects are stronger among vulnerable households …

-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of … intergenerational mobility. …

Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test … evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social mobility". In general, our results show that the long run persistence …

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. For this purpose, an … intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

associations. In addition, we account for educational disruptions related to household income shocks. Our findings show that …

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of … intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting … procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the impact of changes in mobility …