Geographic mobility is a celebrated feature of American life. Deciding where to live is seen not only as a key personal … right to travel is safeguarded by the Constitution, these mobility decisions are not entirely free. In terms of moving long … distances, employment and family reasons are central, and a regime of employment and family law “mobility measures” play a …

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by … productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative mobility in the respective …

This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial … income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by … mobility in the respective region. …

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 …

Our new approach to mobility measurement involves separating out the valuation of positions in terms of individual … the distance concept and yield a class of aggregative indices. This class of indices induces a superclass of mobility … of mobility indices using two well‐known status concepts, related to income mobility and rank mobility. We also show how …

time, making it appear more unequal than it really is. This paper looks at mobility in and out of income and wealth … distribution classes. It finds that all empirical measures of mobility show that it is high, thus mitigating the impact of …