) have a high concentration of households with social ties to the East exhibit substantially higher growth in income per … is associated with a 4.6 percentage point rise in income per capita over six years. We interpret our findings as evidence …

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines …