Contents
10.1. Introduction 808
10.2. MobilityConcepts 810
10.2.1 Mobility's Multiple Dimensions 811
10.2.2 IsIncomeMobilitySociallyDesirable? 814
10.2.3 IncomeMobilityandSocialWelfare 818
10.3.
MobilityMeasurement 82210.3.1 Describing Mobility 822
10.3.2 MobilityDominance 833
10.3.3 MobilityIndices 836
10.4. Intragenerational Mobility: Evidence 855
10.4.1 Data and Issues of Empirical Implementation 856
10.4.2 Intragenerational Income Mobility in the United States: Levels and Trends 863
10.4.3 Is There More Income Mobility in the United States than in (Western) Germany? 875
10.4.4 Intragenerational Income Mobility: Selected Other Evidence 881
10.4.5 SummaryandConclusions 887
10.5. Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence 889
10.5.1 Data and Issues of Empirical Implementation 891
10.5.2 Intergenerational Persistence in the United States 899
10.5.3 Cross-National Comparative Evidence on Intergenerational Associations 908
10.5.4 Evidence on Sibling Correlations 914
10.5.5 Other Approaches to Intergenerational Mobility 920
10.5.6 SummaryandConclusions 922
10.6. Conclusions 923
Acknowledgments 924
References 924