This paper studies the impact of globalization on intergenerational income mobility. Exploiting U.S. data, we find that … stronger trade exposure at the commuting zone level lowers the intergenerational income mobility of residents. In particular …, higher exposure to Chinese import competition lowers the income mobility of the cohort of U.S. workers born in 1980-1982. We …

Survey on Fairness, Inequality and Inter-generational mobility". …

There is a large literature on intergenerational social and educational mobility in developed countries, but the …