Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State
| Autor: | Molinder, Jakob, Berger, Thor, Eriksson, Björn, Engzell, Per |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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Economics and Econometrics
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Economic History. 83:431-463 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6372 0022-0507 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0022050723000098 |
| Popis: | We use historical census data to show that Sweden exhibited high levels of intergenerational occupational mobility several decades before the rise of the welfare state. Mobility rates were higher than in other nineteenth- and twentieth-century European countries, closer to those observed in the highly mobile nineteenth-century United States. We leverage mobility variation across Swedish municipalities to shed light on potential determinants: economic growth and migration are positively correlated with mobility, consistent with the patterns observed across countries. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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