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

Giacomin Favre, Joël Floris and Ulrich Woitek

No 274, ECON - Working Papers from Department of Economics - University of Zurich

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J62 N33 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01
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