Bayaz, Gulgun; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Couch, Kenneth A. - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 131 (2011) 2, pp. 359-368
Using the Shorrocks R, we compare trends in intragenerational income mobility for the western states of Germany and the United States (1984-2006) and test the sensitivity of our results to the starting point and number of years considered. We find that our mobility estimates do not converge to a...