extent the decline in unionization in Britain has contributed to the rise in earnings inequality of semi-skilled workers …-17% of the rise in earnings inequality over this time period. The importance of falling union activity (as measured by union … explain less than 10% of the inequality increase, whereas between 1984 and 1990 about one-quarter of the increase can be …

cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America … and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and …

This paper compares and contrasts estimates of the extent of intergenerational income mobility over time in Britain …. Estimates based on two British birth cohorts show that mobility appears to have fallen in a cross-cohort comparison of people … intergenerational mobility for the more recent cohort. This supports theoretical notions that the widening wage and income distribution …