%0 Report
        %A Manduca, Robert
%A Hell, Maximilian
%A Adermon, Adrian
%A Blanden, Jo
%A Bratberg, Espen
%A Gielen, Anne C.
%A Kippersluis, Hans van
%A Lee, Keun Bok
%A Machin, Stephen
%A Munk, Martin D.
%A Nybom, Martin
%A Ostrovsky, Yuri
%A Rahman, Sumaiya
%A Sirniö, Outi
        %T Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 13456
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13456
        %X We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and Canada saw upward mobility rates near 50% for recent cohorts, while countries like Norway and Finland saw sustained rates above 70%. Decomposition analysis suggests that differences in the marginal income distributions, especially the amount of cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate that absolute mobility rates can be accurately estimated without linked parent-child data.
        %K absolute intergenerational mobility
%K income
%K international comparison