Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Development

Posted: 17 Sep 2002

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Yishay Maoz

The Open University of Israel - Department of Management and Economics

Omer Moav

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); University of Warwick - Department of Economics; Reichman University

Abstract

This paper offers an explanation for some evidence that intergenerational earnings mobility is higher in more developed economies and that mobility is positively correlated with wage equality. In the model mobility promotes economic growth via its effect on the accumulation and allocation of human capital. Growth influences mobility via its effect on incentives to acquire education and its effect on liquidity constraints upon such acquisition. In the process of development mobility increases and the distribution of education becomes better correlated with ability. Redistributive policy has a negative effect on growth in developed economies and a positive effect in developing economies.

Keywords: Intergenerational Income Mobility, Inequality, Growth, Human Capital

JEL Classification: D31, J31, J62 , O40

Suggested Citation

Maoz, Yishay and Moav, Omer, Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Development. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=326121

Yishay Maoz

The Open University of Israel - Department of Management and Economics ( email )

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Omer Moav (Contact Author)

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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United Kingdom

University of Warwick - Department of Economics ( email )

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United Kingdom

HOME PAGE: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/academic/moav

Reichman University ( email )

Israel

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