Work‐Limiting Disability and Intergenerational Economic Mobility.
Objective: To examine whether work‐limiting disability may modify intergenerational economic mobility in the United States. Methods: Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, common metrics of intergenerational mobility are estimated by parent work‐limiting disability. These include rank slope coeff...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 101; no. 5; pp. 2001 - 2017 |
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