, we uncover a steep decline in absolute mobility rates from 81 percent to 59 percent for children's birth cohorts 1962 … the parental income distribution, we find that children from middle class families experienced the largest percentage …

Intergenerational mobility has decreased over time for the cohorts of children born between the 1960s and the 1980s in … Canada. At the same time, returns to education have gone up. Both factors have contributed to exacerbating income gaps … between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income …

the inequality of the parental income distribution, as measured by the Gini coefficient. Hence Canada, and all its … causality is not formally tested here. The decrease in mobility, particularly for children born in the bottom quintile of the … research in order to provide equal opportunities to all children. …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …