middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and low-income jobs. The latter measures the cross-generational link … between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility … from low-income parents if replacement of routine labor is high, and educational polarization for younger generations. I …

analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … labour income mobility are larger in Germany than in the US. This indicates that economic growth has been distributed more …

It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …

We develop a general equilibrium model of earnings, income and wealth heterogeneity in continuous time. We extend … interest rates provide a mechanism to link earnings, income and wealth distributions. We use this connection to demonstrate …

income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …, whereas regional income inequality also depends on the magnitude of the productivity gap of low-skilled workers. A larger … productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative mobility in the respective …