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. …

mobility. We estimate that a child with parental income below the median is expected to belong to the 44th percentile of its … higher than elsewhere in the income distribution. Upward mobility is higher for sons, first-born children, children of self … richest area of the country, display upward mobility levels 3-4 times as large as those in the South. This regional variation …

This study examines intragenerational and intergenerational mobility of employment and income in Viet Nam during 2004 …-2008 and 2010-2014. It finds rather high mobility across income quintiles. There was high mobility of individuals by … occupational skills but less mobility by employment status and sectors. The upward mobility of occupation increased over time …

A correlation curve is introduced as a tool to study the degree of intergenerational income mobility, i.e. how income … much more complete picture of the intergenerational income mobility. …

analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … labour income mobility are larger in Germany than in the US. This indicates that economic growth has been distributed more …

(SOEP) are used to examine how relative income mobility in the life course, i.e. the financial opportunities for advancement …

mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile …-child estimates. They are also more robust to errors in status data. Thus, they can be used to estimate social mobility rates in early … societies such as England 1300-1800, or in less-developed societies now. Surnames measure a different aspect of social mobility …

The World Economic Forum has created a new index to measure social mobility, providing a much-needed assessment of the … current state of social mobility worldwide. …

transmitted between generations and neighbourhood poverty is reproduced over time through to the residential mobility behaviour of …