Intergenerational mobility
Analysis or insights on The Sociology of Inequality and Stratification of Intergenerational mobility
Some sources to start:
A report: Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America, by Julia Isaacs, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins. Brookings Institution 2008.
Available online at: http://www.pewstates.org/uploadedFiles/PCS_Assets/2009/PEW_EMP_GETTING_AHEAD_FULL.pdf
Bowles, Gintis, and Groves “Introduction” from Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success.
Arguments of intergenerational mobility
http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/01/19/is-higher-income-inequality-associated-with-lower-intergenerational-mobility/