More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

Dan Andrews and Andrew Leigh ()

No 566, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J62 N30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-01
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