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| Keishun Suzuki |
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| ''Mobility, Inequality, and Growth: An Inverted-U Relationship'' |
| ( 2020, Vol. 40 No.3 ) |
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| Empirical studies show that income inequality and economic growth tend to have
unclear relationship. To explain the mechanism, this paper presents a simple model in
which mobility, inequality, and growth are endogenously determined. In our model,
children decide whether or not to acquire education in response to the income transfer
from the parent, the each individual's own ability to learn, the wage inequality between
educated workers and uneducated workers, and the family background. Their
education accumulates knowledge capital that is the driving force of the economic
growth. We analytically demonstrate that the inequality has an inverted-U relation
with the growth rate through the acceleration of upward mobility. |
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| Keywords: Social mobility, Income inequality, Education |
JEL: I2 - Education: General
J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor: General |
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| Manuscript Received : May 14 2020 | | Manuscript Accepted : Aug 08 2020 |
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