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

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

The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic … mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However … require data from more than two periods. In this paper, we investigate what can be learned about economic mobility as measured …

The ?prospect of upward mobility? (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions … provided the mobility process is concave in expectations, redistribution policies are expected to last for a sufficiently long … where the concavity of the mobility process, the degree of social mobility, the knowledge of personal income and the degree …