Vive la différence? Intergenerational Mobility in France and the United States during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Jérôme Bourdieu (), Joseph P. Ferrie and Lionel Kesztenbaum
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Jérôme Bourdieu: PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement, LEA - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Joseph P. Ferrie: Department of Economics - Northwestern University [Evanston]

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Abstract: Although rates of intergenerational mobility are the same in the United States and Europe today, attitudes toward redistribution, which should reflect those rates--at least in part--differ substantially. An examination of the differences in mobility between the United States and France since the middle of the nineteenth century, based on data for both countries that permit a comparison between the socioeconomic status of fathers and that of sons throughout a period of thirty years, demonstrates that the United States was a considerably more mobile economy in the past, though such differences are far from apparent today.

Keywords: Intergenerational; mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09
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Published in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2009, 39 (4), pp.523-557. ⟨10.1162/jinh.2009.39.4.523⟩

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DOI: 10.1162/jinh.2009.39.4.523

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