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-1990s.

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Year of publication:	2008-01
Authors:	Andrews, Dan ; Leigh, Andrew
Institutions:	Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics
Subject:	intergenerational mobility \| income distribution \| equality of opportunity

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CEPR Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 566
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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