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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes
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Pablo A. Mitnik – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Although there is an extensive methodological literature on the measurement of intergenerational income mobility, there has been limited research on the conceptual interpretation of mobility measures and the methodological implications of those interpretations. In this article, I focus on the three measures of mobility most frequently used in the…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Income, Correlation, Measurement Techniques