suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

How much economic mobility is there across generations in a poor, primarily rural, economy? How much do … intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that …, we find a relatively high degree of mobility across generations, associated with the shift from farm to non-farm sectors …

inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what …One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to …

parental time. In steady-states more mobile societies have less inequality, but in the short run higher mobility may result … from an increase in inequalilty. Starting from the same inequality, mobility is higher under public than under private … schooling both increase inequality. However, increased shocks raise mobility in the short run and do not affect it in the long …

in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. … which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality reflect transitory or permanent components of individual lifecycle … earnings variation. Increases in inequality reflect increases in permanent differentials in four countries and increases in …

-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and …

starting positions, then inequality decreased by most criteria. However, if mobility itself is part of the welfare criteria …In recent years, an ample literature has emerged on the evolution of global inequality during the last two decades. A … few stylized facts emerge. If one weights countries by their population, then inequality across countries has declined …

This paper investigates income inequality and mobility for the prime age working population of Switzerland in the early … profile. Mobility in the sense of inequality reduction has declined for market income, but in turn increased for disposable … 80s and 90s. The empirical methods applied are based on nonparametric kernel density estimation. Mobility is interpreted …

inequality and mobility for demand for redistribution and social insurance. We model the size of two different public programs …, and the demand for redistribution crucially depend on the level of income inequality and mobility. …