More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

14 Pages Posted: 11 Sep 2007

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Dan Andrews

OECD

Andrew Leigh

Australian House of Representatives Parliament House

Date Written: September 2007

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: intergenerational mobility, income distribution, equality of opportunity

JEL Classification: D31, J62, N30

Suggested Citation

Andrews, Dan and Leigh, Andrew, More Inequality, Less Social Mobility (September 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1011695 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1011695

Dan Andrews

OECD ( email )

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Paris Cedex 16, MO 63108
France

Andrew Leigh (Contact Author)

Australian House of Representatives Parliament House

Canberra, 2600
Australia

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