Another comparison of social mobility: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81/1/WRAP_Naylor_twerp_781.pdf http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81/1/WRAP_Naylor_twerp_781.pdf Mobil

Another comparison of social mobility: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81/1/WRAP_Naylor_twerp_781.pdf http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81/1/WRAP_Naylor_twerp_781.pdf Mobility is lower in the U.S. than in the U.K., where it is lower again compared to t he Nordic countries. Persis- tence is greatest in the tails of the distributions and tends to be particularly high in the upper tails: though in the U.S. this is reversed with a particularl y high likelihood that sons of the poorest fathers will remain in the lowest earnings quintile . This is a challenge to the popu- lar notion of ’American exceptionalism’.