Income Mobility in the U.S.: Evidence from income Tax Returns for 1987 and 1996

by U.S. Department of the Treasury

There is considerable income mobility in the U.S. economy as households move up and down in the income distribution over time. Previous studies have typically found that roughly half of the families in the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution have moved up out of the bottom 20 percent within 10 years and that some of them have moved all the way to the top 20 percent. This paper examines income mobility in the United States during the period...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505389569
• ISBN13: 9781505389562
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"