Eigenvector Status Proxies in Markov Chain Mobility Models

John Conlisk and Paul Sommers
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John Conlisk: University of California, San Diego
Paul Sommers: Middlebury College

Sociological Methods & Research, 1979, vol. 8, issue 2, 159-178

Abstract: In Markov chain studies of occupational mobility, an interesting empirical pattern has been reported. Certain transrtion matrix eigenvectors provide surprisingly accurate proxies for occupational status. Through a number of formal illustra tions, this paper suggests why the pattern might in theory be expected, in the occupational mobility context and in other mobility contexts.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1177/004912417900800203

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