This paper summarizes research on the relative level of intergenerational mobility–whether
classified by income, education or social class. The literatures on education and income …

This chapter reviews the long-run developments in the distribution of personal income and
wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer …

My focus is on the degree to which increasing inequality in the high-income countries,
particularly in the United States, is likely to limit economic mobility for the next generation of …

Using new cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about
intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in France, Italy, Sweden, the …

How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does
it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid …

The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Fair Progress? Economic Mobility across Generations around the World focuses on an issue
that has gotten much attention in the developed world, but will present new data and …

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The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there
is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield …

This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the US and
Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when …