This paper analyzes the relationship between spatial mobility and social mobility. It develops a two-skill-type spatial equilibrium model of two regions with location preferences where each region consists of an urban area which is home to workplaces and residences and an exclusively residential...

Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...

This paper examines the impact of parental investments on various skills during childhood using the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS). Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child's cognitive, mental and emotional skills as well as accurate...