Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in … which relates mobility in measured family income/earnings to mobility in social class. Building on this framework we then … hypothesis that the observed decline in income mobility is a consequence of the poor measurement of permanent family income in …

This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban … Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is … income at the two extremes of the income distribution, which is more accentuated at the top centiles of the distribution. We …