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Intergenerational mobility in the 19th century : micro-level evidence from the city of Zurich

Favre, Giacomin; Floris, Joël; Woitek, Ulrich - 2018

We analyze social mobility of decennial citizenry cohorts of Zurich born between 1780 and 1870. We categorize individuals according to their occupations and use different measures to show the level, change, and components of intergenerational mobility. Mobility was imperfect and weakly...

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Social mobility at the top and the higher education system

Brezis, Elise S.; Hellier, Joël - 2017

This paper relates social mobility and social stratification to the structure of higher education. We develop an intergenerational model which shows that a two-tier higher education characterised by a division between elite and standard universities can be a key factor in generating permanent...

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Improving productivity and job quality of low-skilled workers in the United Kingdom

Zwart, Sanne; Baker, Mark - 2018

More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom have low basic skills, which has a negative impact on career prospects, job quality and productivity growth. Furthermore, unlike most other countries, young adults do not have stronger basic skills than the generation approaching retirement....

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Birth order and social outcomes, England, 1680-2024

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life chances? An extensive genealogy of 428,280 English people 1680-2024, with substantial sets of complete families, suggests that birth order had little effect on social outcomes...

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Can workers still climb the social ladder as middling jobs become scarce? : evidence from two British cohorts

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Petit, Fabien; Van … - 2023

The increase in employment polarization observed in several high-income economies has coincided with a reduction in inter-generational mobility. This paper argues that the disappearance of middling jobs can drive changes in mobility, notably by removing a stepping stone towards high-paying...

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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick; Zhang, Min - 2023 - [rev.]

Home ownership is the largest component of wealth for most households and its intergenerational transmission underpins the production and reproduction of economic inequalities across generations. Yet, little is currently known about ethnic differences in the intergenerational transmission of...

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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States

Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023

We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...

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Matriline versus patriline : social mobility in England, 1754-2023

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024

If social outcomes have social causation, mothers and fathers in different societies will have different effects on child outcomes. Social mobility rates on the patriline will differ from that on the matriline. From an extensive family lineage of 426,552 persons in England 1650-2023 we estimate...

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Applying the Lewis model in industrialized countries : W. Arthur Lewis and the dual economy of Manchester in the 1950s

Mosley, Paul; Ingham, Barbara - In: The Manchester School 84 (2016) 1, pp. 95-124

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How Far Do England's Second-Order Cities Emulate London as Human-Capital 'Escalators’?

Champion, Tony - 2013

London as human- capital escalators. The analysis is based on the ONS Longitudinal Study of linked census records, primarily … Collar Core. For non- migrants, the transition rates for all the second-order cities are found to fall well short of London … South East (GSE) and its performance is matched by the non-London part of the GSE. Those moving to the second-order cities …

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