Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun. <br/><br/>
Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006 / 
Gulgun Bayaz-Ozturk, Richard V. Burkhauser, Kenneth A. Couch. 
 - Cambridge, Mass.  National Bureau of Economic Research  2012. 
 - 1 online resource:  illustrations (black and white); 
 - NBER working paper series  no. w18618 .
 - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)  no. w18618. .
<br/><br/> December 2012. 
<br/><br/> The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the period measured. We argue that a great social transformation--German reunification-- abruptly and permanently altered economic mobility.  Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany.  But when we cut the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the U.S. 
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