Intergenerational Mobility in the 19th Century: Micro-Level Evidence from the City of Zurich

University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 274

42 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2018

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Giacomin Favre

University of Zurich - Department of Economics

Joël Floris

University of Zurich

Ulrich Woitek

University of Zurich

Date Written: January 2018

Abstract

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 decreasing over time. Both level and change are driven by intergenerational persistence of occupations with a low socioeconomic position and low transition between low and high socioeconomic position.

Keywords: Social Mobility, Occupational Mobility, 19Th Century, Switzerland

JEL Classification: J62, N33, N34

Suggested Citation

Favre, Giacomin and Floris, Joël and Woitek, Ulrich, Intergenerational Mobility in the 19th Century: Micro-Level Evidence from the City of Zurich (January 2018). University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 274, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3102280 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3102280

Giacomin Favre (Contact Author)

University of Zurich - Department of Economics ( email )

Zürich
Switzerland

Joël Floris

University of Zurich ( email )

Rämistrasse 71
Zürich, CH-8006
Switzerland

Ulrich Woitek

University of Zurich ( email )

Zürichbergstrasse 14
CH-8032 Zurich
Switzerland

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