supports the hypothesis that inequality trends are generating trends in absolute earnings mobility. Evidence about the impact … of inequality on relative mobility is less clear, partly because within-country relative mobility trends are weak, partly … in relative mobility could arise from offsetting forces. Efforts to exploit local variation in inequality and mobility …

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 …

drivers will most likely lower the degree of intergenerational earnings mobility for the next generation of Americans coming …