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| Author: | Long, J. Ferrie, J. |
| Title: | The path to convergence: intergenerational occupational mobility in Britain and the US in three eras |
| Journal: | Economic Journal
2007 : MAR, VOL. 117:519, p. C61-C71 |
| Index terms: | families occupational mobility United Kingdom USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Late nineteenth-century intergenerational occupational mobility was higher in the US than in the UK. Differences between them in this type of mobility are absent today. This study uses data on 10 000 US and UK father and son pairs followed over two intervals (the 1860s and 1870s, and the 1880s and 1890s) and examines how this convergence occurred. The US remained more mobile than UK through 1900 but the difference fell over the last two decades of the nineteenth century (as UK mobility rose) and was erased by the 1950s (as mobility fell by more in the US than in UK). |
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