Houtenville, Andrew J. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 59-65
-national studies of income mobility find the oppositeis true. This paper investigates these surprising results and finds that they are … confirmed when income mobility is measured by changes in the positions of individuals inthe income distribution - members of … former West German households are more income mobile than Americans. However, when income mobility is measured by absolute …