Postindustrial occupational change has ended an era of unprecedented upward mobility.
We examine the political implications of this immense structural shift by introducing the …

Relative intergenerational mobility declined for cohorts born around 1960 compared to
those born around 1950. The former entered the labor market after the rise in inequality …

A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150
years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on White samples and …

Efforts to document long-term trends in socioeconomic mobility in the United States have
been hindered by the lack of large, representative datasets that include information linking …

We provide new estimates of intergenerational income mobility in France for children born in
the 1970s using rich administrative data. Since parents' incomes are not observed, we …

This article examines the role of the Great Depression in shaping the intergenerational
mobility of some of the most upwardly mobile cohorts of the twentieth century. Using newly …

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country,
namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train …

Studying a dynamic model of intergenerational transmission, we show that past events affect
contemporaneous trends in intergenerational mobility. Structural changes may generate …

Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in
sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational …

This paper studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing
plants on the regions where they were built and on individuals from those regions …