Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145134 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10000
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities in income and educational mobility in both countries. Greater Danish income mobility is largely a consequence of redistributional tax, transfer, and wage compression policies. While Danish social policies for children produce more favorable cognitive test scores for disadvantaged children, these do not translate into more favorable educational outcomes, partly because of disincentives to acquire education arising from the redistributional policies that increase income mobility.
Subjects: 
social mobility
education
inequality
comparative analysis of systems
JEL: 
I32
I28
I24
P51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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