Bayaz Ozturk, Gulgun; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Couch, … - 2013
economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the US. …