Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America

By Julia B. Isaacs, I. Sawhill, Ron Haskins. 2008

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A comparison of upward and downward intergenerational mobility in Canada, Sweden and the United States (2014, methodology): “Specifically, a few previous studies using survey data like the PSID and NLSY (e.g. Isaacs et al., 2008; Jäntti et al., 2006) have found greater stickiness in the bottom quintile in the United States with around 60% of individuals transitioning out of the bottom.24 We have done some extensive…”
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