In this paper I investigate the causal relationship between labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility … between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility …, I develop a model that accounts for labor market polarization, spatial heterogeneity and intergenerational mobility …

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 …

-term achievement mobility, which has received limited attention in previous literature. Our study, based on the China Family Panel … circumstance and effort on children's academic achievement mobility in China. Results show that: (1) Circumstance has a … hand, the overall rate of upward mobility (achievement in the bottom quarter in 2010 but in the top quarter in 2014) is 10 …