More inequality, less social mobility

Dan Andrews; Andrew Leigh

doi:10.1080/13504850701720197

More inequality, less social mobility

Dan Andrews, Andrew Leigh^*

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1489-1492
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	16
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850701720197
Publication status	Published - Oct 2009

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