mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile …-child estimates. They are also more robust to errors in status data. Thus, they can be used to estimate social mobility rates in early … societies such as England 1300-1800, or in less-developed societies now. Surnames measure a different aspect of social mobility …

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by … mobility in the respective region. …