The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic … mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However … require data from more than two periods. In this paper, we investigate what can be learned about economic mobility as measured …

did markedly increase. Wage mobility has hardly changed since the mid-1990s: almost two thirds of employees in the lowest …

pure effect of economic growth, a mobility effect and a cost due to aversion to time fluctuations given individuals' ranks … in the income distribution. The mobility effect, generated by reranking in the income distribution has two components: a … mobility due to the increase in time fluctuations of individual income streams, the net effect of mobility remains positive. In …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … methodology to newly available panel data on household consumption. We find overall mobility has been markedly low: at least 7 out …