How does economic mobility over the individual life course shape population-level trends in economic inequality, and, in turn, how does this inequality influence individuals' economic mobility prospects? Historically, allowing opportunities for economic mobility has been seen as an American alternative to equalizing incomes. However, after decades of rising inequality across the population and persistent disparity between racial groups, many academics and policymakers have come to question how neatly we can separate the two
This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term incomes – a c...
The rise of economic populism and movements for greater racial, gender, and class equality over the ...
This dissertation studies income inequality in the United States during the last two decades. The co...
The United States is an economy that experiences high and growing levels of inequality in various fo...
Social mobility has long been an ideal cherished in the United States even if not always achieved in...
Economists have developed an extensive literature examining the relationships between inequality of ...
This paper presents a theoretical framework for understanding how inequality and mobility are jointl...
New evidence shows that intergenerational social mobility-the rate at which children born into pover...
Acknowledging that wage inequality and intergenerational mobility are strongly interrelated, this p...
The burgeoning landscape of literature on mobility inequalities has led to discrepancies between a c...
It has long been recognized that cross-sectional distributions of economic well-being (hereafter ref...
Social science research finds that the only group to have experienced real economic gains over the p...
Social science research finds that the only group to have experienced real economic gains over the p...
This thesis is comprised of three chapters which focus on inequality, and more closely, on the trend...
The burgeoning landscape of literature on mobility inequalities has led to discrepancies between a c...
This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term incomes – a c...
The rise of economic populism and movements for greater racial, gender, and class equality over the ...
This dissertation studies income inequality in the United States during the last two decades. The co...
The United States is an economy that experiences high and growing levels of inequality in various fo...
Social mobility has long been an ideal cherished in the United States even if not always achieved in...
Economists have developed an extensive literature examining the relationships between inequality of ...
This paper presents a theoretical framework for understanding how inequality and mobility are jointl...
New evidence shows that intergenerational social mobility-the rate at which children born into pover...
Acknowledging that wage inequality and intergenerational mobility are strongly interrelated, this p...
The burgeoning landscape of literature on mobility inequalities has led to discrepancies between a c...
It has long been recognized that cross-sectional distributions of economic well-being (hereafter ref...
Social science research finds that the only group to have experienced real economic gains over the p...
Social science research finds that the only group to have experienced real economic gains over the p...
This thesis is comprised of three chapters which focus on inequality, and more closely, on the trend...
The burgeoning landscape of literature on mobility inequalities has led to discrepancies between a c...
This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term incomes – a c...
The rise of economic populism and movements for greater racial, gender, and class equality over the ...
This dissertation studies income inequality in the United States during the last two decades. The co...