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More Inequality, less social mobility

Date

Authors

Andrews, Dan

Leigh, Andrew

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Keywords: economic theory; income distribution; labor mobility; occupation; theoretical study; wage gap

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/26790

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Applied Economics Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1080/13504850701720197

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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