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The evolution of social mobility: Norway over the 20th century.

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti
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2016-02-12
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Abstract
This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers

born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s.

We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, associations

between fathers’ and sons’ income percentiles, and brother correlations. All approaches

suggest that social mobility increased substantially between cohorts born

in the early 1930s and the early 1940s. Father-son associations remained stable for

cohorts born after WWII, while brother correlations continued to decline. The relationship

between fathers’ and sons’ income percentile ranks is highly nonlinear for

the early cohorts, but approaches linearity over time. We discuss increasing educational

attainment among low- and middle-income families as a possible mechanism

behind these trends.
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SAM;02/2016

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