results suggest there is moderate level of "stickiness" in income mobility across generations. Sons are found to be more …. There is virtually no evidence on intergenerational mobility in the context of low income countries in general and Sub …-Saharan Africa in particular. The paper thus provides valuable insights into issues of intergenerational mobility in a low income …

observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we … Panel Study of Income Dynamics' data we find that married sons imitate their parents' household disparities more than …

We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America … above 70%. Decomposition analysis suggests that differences in the marginal income distributions, especially the amount of … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …

recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data … from the Survey of Household Finances over the period 2002 to 2014 to examine the distributions of income and wealth in … both income and wealth following the sharp decline in house prices that occurred since 2008, with house price fluctuations …