A Very Uneven Playing Field: Economic Mobility in the United States
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Keywords
income mobility; intergenerational mobility; Inequality; human capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LMA-2019-01-14 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MAC-2019-01-14 (Macroeconomics)
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