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Analyses of Intergenerational Mobility An Interdisciplinary Review

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This article reviews the sociological and economic literature on intergenerational mobility. Findings on social class, occupational status, earnings, and income mobility are discussed and discrepancies among them are evaluated. The review also examines nonlinearities in the intergenerational association, variation in mobility across advanced industrial countries, and recent mobility trends in the United States. The literature suggests an association between inequality and economic mobility at the country level, with the United States featuring higher inequality and lower mobility than other advanced industrial countries. However, mobility has not declined in the United States over the recent decades in which inequality has expanded. The inequality-mobility relationship fails to emerge when occupational measures of mobility are used, likely because these measures do not fully capture some mechanisms of economic reproduction.

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THE ANNALS THE AMERICAN OF POLITICAL ANS SOCIAL SCIENCE

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Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications., 2015

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English

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978-1-4833-9181-6

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Volume 657, Januari 2015, pages 37-62

Subject(s)

Social Inequality
Class mobility
Income mobility
Equality of opportunity

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