期刊名称:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Regional Economist
出版年度:2016
出版社:Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
摘要:D o you earn more money than your pa rents. Do you have more wealth, i.e., assets m inus liabilities, than your parents. Economists use the answers to these questions to deter mine what is called intergenerational mobility—the changes in a family's economic status between suc- cessive generations. Why should we care about intergenerat ional mobility. Being able to do better than one's parents is par t of the American Drea m. Also, a society with intergenerational mobility might have less economic inequalit y across generat ions