Partner choice and intergenerational occupational mobility: The case of nineteenth-century rural Sweden

Continuity and Change

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 487-512

  Dribe, Martin ^a   Lundh, Christer ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; LABOR MOBILITY; MARRIAGE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; OCCUPATION; RURAL SOCIETY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 75649148239     PISSN: 02684160     EISSN: 1469218X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0268416009990178     Document Type: Review

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