Less Equal and Less Mobile: Evidence of a Decline in Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States
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Keywords
Intergenerational mobility; intergenerational elasticity of income; income inequality; attenuation bias;All these keywords.
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- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
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