Chapter 10
Income Mobility
Markus Jäntti*; Stephen P. Jenkins†,‡,§ * Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden† Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, London, UK‡ ISER, University of Essex, Colchester, UK§ IZA, Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Abstract
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within and between generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Keywords
Intragenerational mobility
Intergenerational mobility
Income mobility
Earnings mobility
JEL Classification Codes
D31
I30
10.1 Introduction
Most of the information that we have about income ...
