More Inequality, Less Social Mobility
14 Pages Posted: 11 Sep 2007
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
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