Bradbury, Katharine L.; Katz, Jane - 2009
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No. 09‐7
Trends in U.S. Family Income Mobility, 1967–2004
Katharine Bradbury and Jane Katz
Abstract:
Much … from the literature, we examine mobility levels and trends for U.S. working‐age families, overall
and by race, during the time span 1967–2004. By most measures, we find that mobility is lower in more
recent … examines between‐group measures of inequality.
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With only two subgroups (blacks
and whites), between‐group inequality is quite small, but its change over the 1967–2004 …