children. Mobility between different affluence counts between 2002 and 2007 is rather low and existing changes are mostly …

children. Mobility between different affluence counts between 2002 and 2007 is rather low and existing changes are mostly …

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

This paper shows that the design of education policy involves a potential conflict between welfare and social mobility …. We consider a setting in which social mobility is maximized under the least elitist public education system, whereas … elitism that maximizes social mobility increases, while the welfare-maximizing degree of elitism decreases. The ranking …

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

bureaucratic elite has been joining the business elite after leaving office, and this in growing numbers. This relationship has … purpose of this paper is to explain why this social behavior takes place, and why the political elite does not try to prevent … it. Moreover, this paper shows that the bureaucratic elite obtains excessive bureaucratic power, and that promiscuous …

The ?prospect of upward mobility? (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions … provided the mobility process is concave in expectations, redistribution policies are expected to last for a sufficiently long … where the concavity of the mobility process, the degree of social mobility, the knowledge of personal income and the degree …