Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003....

Mit repräsentativen verbundenen Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Daten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit wird untersucht, inwieweit Personen, die in den Jahren 1998/99 vollzeitbeschäftigte Geringverdiener mit weniger als zwei Dritteln des Medianlohns waren, in den folgenden Jahren den Aufstieg aus dem...

Much of America’s promise is predicated on the existence of economic mobilitythe idea that people are not limited or defined by where they start, but can move up the economic ladder based on their efforts and accomplishments. Family income mobilitychanges in individual families’ real incomes...