residential mobility is an important ecological mobility which, besides physical impacts, has contributed in shaping or reshaping of urban social milieus. the analyses of results related to a sample of 17510 households inhabiting in 40 regions of mashhad indicates that 46.9 percent of them had experienced a residential relocation during a period of ten years, the maximum of which (62.8 percent)...

In this paper, I study the difference in intergenerational mobility patterns between indigenous and non-indigenous Mexican populations, analyzing role played by variability skin tones inside both groups. employ a composite sample based on two recent surveys with same sampling frame questionnaire design. obtained three main results rank-rank regressions transition matrices for economic education...

This paper argues that both inequality of opportunity and social mobility are necessary implications of an efficient, or optimal, societal arrangement when incentives must be provided. ∗The author thanks Marco Bassetto, V.V. Chari, Narayana Kocherlakota, and Aleh Tsyvinski for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve B...

This paper empirically investigates to what extent individuals vote with their pocketbooks in income redistribution. Survey data on preferences for redistribution show significant deviations from pocketbook voting in the poorest and the richest income groups. Differences in income status, education status, and other factors related to perceived social mobility cannot fully explain cross-country...

We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the late-1990s.