Climbing the Economic Ladder

Below are the median income of each quintile in the United States, England, France, Germany, Canada and Sweden. What I find most interesting is that, keeping in mind that there is mobility between quintiles in every country, the obvious question becomes: in which country would you most like to move up two quintiles? On the one hand- where is there more equality between quintiles and on the other – where would you prefer to be equally mobile? Does it look like there is a lot of incentive to work in each of these countries?

As always, they are after tax and transfer net disposable incomes from LIS. For this one I used 1994 numbers, except 1995 in Sweden (they don't have 1994 numbers), inflated to 2003 dollars with the CPI and into US dollars with deflated 1994 (or 1995 for Sweden) PPP.