measures of mobility to assess the evolution of weight, height, and body mass index during early childhood. We find that … mobility is quite high prior to primary school and then declines noticeably. However, there are important sources of …

entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …

Income mobility is often thought to equalize permanent incomes and thereby to improve social welfare. The welfare … analysis of mobility often fails, however, to account for the cost of the variability of periodic incomes around permanent … incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent …

European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a … more dynamic areas. In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of …

In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital … to multiple equilibria (a world of local social capital and low mobility vs. a world of low social capital and high … propensity to move). It also shows that local social capital is systematically negative for mobility, and can be negative for …

mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes for cities of different sizes. The optimal tax schedule is location …. Simulating the US economy under the optimal tax schedule, there are large effects on population mobility: the fraction of …