Erikson, Robert; Goldthorpe, John H. - In: European Economic Review 53 (2009) 1, pp. 118-120
McIntosh and Munk claim that the class schema developed by Erikson and Goldthorpe lacks validity and should not be taken as a basis for studies of intergenerational social mobility. Their paper is founded on a serious misconception of why the schema is in fact used by sociologists in mobility...