Behrman, Jere R.; Gaviria, Alejandro; Székely, Miguel - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2001)
High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand … of schooling and occupational status in Latin America and the United States. We find that intergenerational mobility is … much higher in the United States than in Latin America, that there are sizable differences in mobility within Latin America …