Replication data for: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850: Comment

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Project Citation:

Hout, Michael, and Guest, Avery M. Replication data for: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850: Comment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/E112666V1

Project Description

Summary: We reanalyze Long and Ferrie's data. We find that the association of occupational status across generations was quite similar over time and place. Two significant differences were: (i) American farms in 1880 were far more open to men who had nonfarm backgrounds than were American farms in 1973 or British farms in either century; (ii) of the four cases, the intergenerational correlation was strongest in Britain in 1881. Structural mobility related to, among other things, economic growth and occupational differentiation, affected mobility most in 1970s America.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: loglinear models; structural mobility; Intergenerational mobility

JEL Classification:
      J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
      N31 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
      N32 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
      N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
      N34 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-

Geographic Coverage: Great Britain, United States

Time Period(s): 1850 – 1973

Universe: Experienced civilian labor force, men

Data Type(s): survey data; census/enumeration data

Collection Notes: Men linked across censuses

Methodology

Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau, U.K. National Archives

Unit(s) of Observation: Persons,

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