Download or read book Intergenerational Income Mobility and Redistributive Policy written by Mareike Schad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically and empirically. The second part addresses individual beliefs regarding the determinants of personal economic success and their effect on income mobility within a society.