Empirical studies of intergenerational mobility measure it with different statistics-intergenerational elasticities, rank-rank slopes, transition matrices, axiomatic indices-and sometimes reach different conclusions about which places or periods experienced more mobility. I show that a single...

We provide new evidence on intergenerational social mobility among immigrants and natives in France. Using linked parent–child data from censuses, we introduce an individual-level metric - the Intergenerational Rank Difference (IRD) - that measures upward and downward mobility relative to the...

Skill transferability is essential for occupational mobility and adapting to external shocks, yet detailed data on workers’ skills is often scarce and costly to collect, specially in developing countries. This paper explores whether the American O*NET database, one of the most popular...