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More inequality, less social mobility

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers' earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the late-1990s.

Source: Applied Economics Letters

DOI: 10.1080/13504850701720197

Authors: Dan Andrews, Andrew Leigh

Institutions: Harvard University, Australian National University

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

Funders: Harvard University, Australian National University