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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP17346 |
DP17346 The Mismeasure of Man: Why Intergenerational Occupational Mobility is Much Lower than Conventionally Measured, England, 1800-2021 | |
Gregory Clark; Neil Cummins; Matthew Curtis | |
发表日期 | 2022-05-31 |
出版年 | 2022 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Using a new database of 1.7 m marriages in England 1837-1939, and a genealogy of 414,000 people in England 1700-2021, we estimate two independent new occupational status indices for England 1800-1939. These new indices show that there was much less social mobility 1800-1939 than previous indices, such as HISCAM, imply. The performance of these two new indices, however, illustrates a general problem with comparing social mobility across time and place using status indices. All such indices embody unknown and varying degrees of error. The more error, the more apparent mobility. So in the paper we develop a way of measuring intergenerational occupational status mobility which eliminates all measurement error. This suggests that intergenerational occupational status persistence in England 1800-2021 was always much greater than conventionally measured, and was largely unchanged over time. |
主题 | Economic History ; Labour Economics |
关键词 | Intergenerational social mobility Occupational mobility |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17346 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546390 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gregory Clark,Neil Cummins,Matthew Curtis. DP17346 The Mismeasure of Man: Why Intergenerational Occupational Mobility is Much Lower than Conventionally Measured, England, 1800-2021. 2022. |
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