More inequality, less social mobility
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-19...
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| Volume: | 16 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: |
Andrews, Dan
Leigh, Andrew |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Place of publication: |
ABINGDON Taylor & Francis 01.10.2009 ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Taylor and Francis Journals |
| published in: | Applied economics letters Vol. 16; no. 15; pp. 1489 - 1492 |
| ORCID: |
0000-0002-5639-0509 |
| Data of publication: | 10/1/2009 |
| ISSN: |
1350-4851 1466-4291 |
| EISSN: |
1466-4291 |
| Discipline: | Economics |
| Series: |
Applied Economics Letters |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Fulltext |
| Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2009 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS |