We provide new evidence on intergenerational social mobility among immigrants and natives in France. Using linked … measures upward and downward mobility relative to the highest-ranked parent across both education and predicted income. We … document a robust mobility premium for second-generation immigrants: on average, they achieve a predicted income rank six …

In this paper we estimate social mobility rates, free of measurement errors, using register data for Denmark and Sweden … locations in family trees, such as cousins relative to siblings. Three things emerge from these estimates. First social mobility … reputation for high social mobility rates, have nearly the same degree of persistence as in modern England, and also nineteenth …

This paper is the first to show that intergenerational income mobility in Germany has decreased over time. We provide …

allocation and intergenerational mobility. Using Swedish data on skills and personality traits, we estimate a general equilibrium … following and increases intergenerational earnings mobility by a third, benefiting low-income sons most. Exploiting long … with our model. Our results suggest that facilitating more occupational mobility would increase intergenerational income …

, long-term trends in intergenerational mobility in a major premodern city. The dataset contains information on over 270 … shifts in intergenerational mobility, and determine whether these shifts reflect primarily horizontal movements within social … strata or also include greater mobility across class boundaries. We find that the share of titled individuals followed a non …