We investigate career concerns of financial advisers with a focus on their risktaking and upward mobility. We use … policy for recruitment across firms, we provide evidence that reducing frictions in job mobility yields sorting dynamics that …

Intergenerational mobility has decreased over time for the cohorts of children born between the 1960s and the 1980s in … intergenerational income transmission. In addition, overall income mobility has shrunk less in communities that have experienced greater … intergenerational income mobility. …

This paper analyzes the roles of innate talent versus family background in shaping intergenerational mobility and … suggests that under the private education system, income inequality is inversely associated with social mobility, and the …. Consequently, both intergenerational mobility and income inequality increase, and social welfare may improve under reasonable …

-productive assets, and residence status. Next, we evaluate individuals' socioeconomic mobility over time and across generations as a …

This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and … with an extremely low degree of social mobility. …

The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention … has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality … intergenerational mobility overall, it argues, it also is explained by the lower mobility of disadvantaged compared with advantaged …