Bukowski, Paweł; Clark, Gregory; Gáspár, Attila; … - 2021
This paper measures social mobility rates in Hungary 1949-2017, for upper class and underclass families, using surnames …, 1989-2020, a free-market economy. We find five surprising things. First, social mobility rates were low for both upper- and … lower-class families 1949- 2017, with an underlying intergenerational status correlation of 0.6-0.8. Second, social mobility …