of any family is tethered to its starting point. In the United States, family income inequality has risen from year to …; changes over time in mobility, which can offset or amplify the cross-sectional increase in inequality, determine the degree to … which the inequality of longer-term income has risen in parallel. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a …

wellbeing of any family is tethered to its starting point. In the United States, family income inequality has risen from year to … year since the mid-1970s; given this rising cross-sectional inequality, changes over time in mobility determine the degree … distribution of families' lifetime incomes became less equal. -- Income mobility ; income inequality ; income distribution …

We compare earnings inequality and mobility across the U.S., Canada, France, Germany and the U.K. during the late 1990s … and employment risk are found to be positively correlated with base-year inequality. Taken together they produce more … equalization in countries with high cross-section inequality such that the countries in our sample have more similar lifetime …