Manduca, Robert; Hell, Maximilian; Adermon, Adrian; … - 2020
We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America … above 70%. Decomposition analysis suggests that differences in the marginal income distributions, especially the amount of … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …
