We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing internal migration the United States. begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals’ decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding impact of outcomes, implications for labor market adjustment, interactions between housing markets. Finally, discuss efficacy policies ai...

We document the intergenerational mobility of Black and White American men from 1880 through 2000 by building new historical datasets for late nineteenth early twentieth century combining them with modern data to cover middle century. find large disparities in mobility, children having far better chances escaping bottom distribution than every generation. This gap was more important proximately...

We examine the association of income variability both within and across generations based on a heterogeneous growth model of permanent and transitory income in Sweden. Non-parametric regressions reveal that income variability is strongly associated with long-run levels of income, especially for lowand highincome earners, and that it is also strongly associated across generations. JEL Classifica...

This paper combines cross-sectional and longitudinal income data to present the evolution of absolute intergenerational mobility in ten advanced economies twentieth century. Absolute decreased during second half century all these countries. Increasing inequality decreasing growth rates have both contributed decrease, yet is dominant contributor most We show that detailed panel are effectively u...

This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced 1979. The elasticity increases from 0.390 for the 1970–1980 birth cohort to 0.442 1981–1988 cohort; this increase is more evident among urban and coastal residents than rural inland residents. We also explore how changes correlated with market reforms, development, policy chan...

Quit Turnover and the Business Cycle: A Survey The focus of this chapter is to consider new developments in the search and matching literature where wages, quit turnover and unemployment are endogenously determined in economies with aggregate shocks. The aim of the discussion is not only to highlight possible market failures but also to explain how on-the-job search and employee turnover fundam...

We estimate intergenerational income mobility in Italy using administrative data from tax returns. Our estimates of are higher than prior work survey and indirect methods. The rankrank slope parent-child is 0.22, compared to 0.18 Denmark 0.34 the United States. probability that a child reaches top quintile national distribution starting family bottom 0.11. uncover substantial geographical varia...

We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on outcomes for the extended family: dynasty. A dataset including entire Swedish population, linking four generations, allows us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, spouses’ siblings. Using various measures, we show that traditional parent-child estimates underestimate by at least one-thi...

This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970) reduced gains from growing up in northern United States for Black families and can explain 27 percent of region’s upward mobility gap today. I identify share increases by interacting pre-1940 migrants’ location choices with predicted southern county out-migration. Locational changes, not negative selection fa...

While privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remains a popular policy tool in many countries, the impacts on workers are unclear. This paper studies case Brazil, which implemented large program 1990s. Following privatization, incumbent privatized SOEs suffer wage decline roughly 25 percent relative to matched control group. Additionally, private sector firms that connected by labor mob...