More Inequality, Less Social Mobility
Dan Andrews and
Andrew Leigh
No 566, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, 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)
Date: 2008-01
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