movements in income. We find that relative income mobility is a significant predictor of life satisfaction and mental health …. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we consider both relative and absolute …, whether people move upward or downward. For absolute income, mobility is only a consistent predictor of SWB and mental health …

intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … relative importance across income percentiles. In Germany, there are no significant nonlinearities at all. …Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the …

This is the first paper that studies the effects of including non-monetary income from housing (imputed rent) in the … measure of income on intergenerational income mobility. Using national panel data sets for Australia, the United States and … Germany, it is shown that only Australian society becomes 22\% less mobile as measured by an intergenerational rank …

Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial inequality of educational achievements between immigrants and …

Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …