Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850: Comment

Michael Hout and Avery M. Guest

American Economic Review, 2013, vol. 103, issue 5, 2021-40

Abstract: We reanalyze Long and Ferrie's data. We find that the association of occupational status across generations was quite similar over time and place. Two significant differences were: (i) American farms in 1880 were far more open to men who had nonfarm backgrounds than were American farms in 1973 or British farms in either century; (ii) of the four cases, the intergenerational correlation was strongest in Britain in 1881. Structural mobility related to, among other things, economic growth and occupational differentiation, affected mobility most in 1970s America.

JEL-codes: J62 N31 N32 N33 N34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.5.2021
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