Using individual data from over 400 surveys, this paper compiles a global database of intergenerational mobility in … trends in intergenerational mobility for individuals born between 1950 to 1989. The findings show that absolute mobility in … despite the higher levels of parental educational attainment. Relative mobility-measuring the degree of independence between …

mobility in education for 153 countries covering 97 percent of the world’s population. Absolute mobility in education – the … the higher levels of parental educational attainment. Relative mobility – measuring the degree of independence between … parent and child years of schooling – is also greater in the developed world. Countries with higher rates of mobility have (i …

This research compares the patterns of intergenerational income mobility between fathers and sons in Germany, Italy …, Great Britain and the United States. It is one of the few studies that investigates more than one dimension of mobility. It … also proposes a new way to construct the mobility matrices, in order to control for the age at which income is measured …

This chapter investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past 40 years. This is … the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK through two channels: the first is the effect on the earnings … very small. We decompose wage inequality into inequality within the immigrant and native groups and inequality between the …