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:	2007
Authors:	Andrews, Dan ; Leigh, Andrew
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (14 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 2007 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.1011695 [DOI]
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:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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