This paper proposes an econometric methodology to deal with life cycle earnings and mobility among discrete earnings … and compare our approach to Markov chain models of income mobility …

This paper examines the mobility of individuals through the wage and earnings distributions. This is of extreme … importance since mobility has a direct implication for the way one views the vast changes in wage and earnings inequality in the … United States over the last few decades. The measures of wage and earnings mobility analyzed are based on data for …

receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed … of the paper introduces a family of top income mobility measures based on differences in average annual incomes of top … top income mobility in Norway since 1967. The results reveal low levels of top income mobility, but a relatively large …

This report sheds light on the extent to which earnings mobility and inequality of opportunity in access to the labor … through their own efforts. For this reason, this report takes a closer look at the extent and nature of earnings mobility and …