Intergenerational occupational mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850

American Economic Review

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1109-1137

  Long, Jason ^a   Ferrie, Joseph ^b,c  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879129399     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.4.1109     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Agresti, Alan. 2002. Categorical Data Analysis. New York: Wiley-Interscience.
2. Alesina, Alberto, Rafael Di Tella, and Robert MacCulloch. 2004. "Inequality and Happiness: Are Europeans and Americans Different?" Journal of Public Economics 88 (9-10): 2009-42.
3. Altham, Patricia M. E. 1970. "The Measurement of Association of Rows and Columns for an r × s Contingency Table." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 32 (1): 63-73.
4. Altham, Patricia M. E., and Joseph P. Ferrie. 2007. "Comparing Contingency Tables: Tools for Analyzing Data from Two Groups Cross-Classified by Two Characteristics." Historical Methods 40 (1): 3-16.
5. Becker, Gary S. 1964. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research.
6. Becker, Gary S., and Nigel Tomes. 1986. "Human Capital and the Rise and Fall of Families." Journal of Labor Economics 4 (3): S1-39.
7. Björklund, Anders, and Markus Jäntti. 2000. "Intergenerational Mobility of Socio-Economic Status in Comparative Perspective." Nordic Journal of Political Economy 26 (1): 3-32.
8. Blau, Peter M., and Otis Dudley Duncan. 1967. The American Occupational Structure. New York: Free Press.
9. Collins, E. J. T., ed. 2000. The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume VII, 1850-1914, Part 1. New York: Cambridge University Press.
10. Davison, Mark L. 1983. Multidimensional Scaling. New York: Wiley.
11. de Tocqueville, Alexis. 1835. Democracy in America. New York: Harper and Row (1966).
12. Erikson, Robert, and John H. Goldthorpe. 1992. The Constant Flux: A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
13. Featherman, David L., and Robert M. Hauser. 1975. "Design for a Replicate Study of Social Mobility in the United States." In Social Indicator Models, edited by Kenneth C. Land and Seymour Spilerman, 219-52. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
14. Featherman, David L., and Robert M. Hauser. 1978. Opportunity and Change. New York: Academic Press.
15. Ferrie, Joseph P. 2005. "History Lessons: The End of American Exceptionalism? Mobility in the United States since 1850." Journal of Economic Perspectives 19 (3): 199-215.
16. Galenson, David W. 1991. "Economic Opportunity on the Urban Frontier: Nativity, Work, and Wealth in Early Chicago." Journal of Economic History 51 (3): 581-603.
17. Gibson, Campbell. 1998. "Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990." US Census Bureau Population Division Working Paper 27.
18. Goldin, Claudia. 1999. "A Brief History of Education in the United States." National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper 119.
19. Goodman, Leo A. 1970. "The Multivariate Analysis of Qualitative Data: Interactions among Multiple Classifications." Journal of the American Statistical Association 65 (329): 226-56.
20. Goodman, Leo A., and Michael Hout. 1998. "Statistical Methods and Graphical Displays for Analyzing How the Association between Two Qualitative Variables Differs among Countries, among Groups, or over Time: A Modified Regression-Type Approach." Sociological Methodology 28 (1): 175-230.
21. Grawe, Nathan D., and Casey B. Mulligan. 2002. "Economic Interpretations of Intergenerational Correlations." Journal of Economic Perspectives 16 (3): 45-58.
22. Grusky, David B. 1987. "American Occupational Mobility in the 19th and 20th Centuries." PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison.
23. Grusky, David B., and Robert M. Hauser. 1984. "Comparative Social Mobility Revisited: Models of Convergence and Divergence in 16 Countries." American Sociological Review 49 (1): 19-38.
24. Guest, Avery M., Nancy S. Landale, and James C. McCann. 1989. "Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in the Late 19th Century United States." Social Forces 68 (2): 351-78.
25. Han, Song, and Casey B. Mulligan. 2001. "Human Capital, Heterogeneity and Estimated Degrees of Intergenerational Mobility." Economic Journal 111 (470): 207-43.
26. Hauser, Robert M. 1980. "Some Exploratory Methods for Modeling Mobility Tables and Other Cross- Classified Data." Sociological Methodology 11 (1980): 413-58.
27. Hauser, Robert M., John N. Koffel, Harry P. Travis, and Peter J. Dickinson. 1975. "Temporal Change in Occupational Mobility: Evidence for Men in the United States." American Sociological Review 40 (3): 279-97.
28. Hout, Michael. 1983. Mobility Tables. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
29. Kerckhoff, Alan C., Richard T. Campbell, and Idee Winfield-Laird. 1985. "Social Mobility in Great Britain and the United States." American Journal of Sociology 91 (2): 281-308.
30. Kim, Sukkoo. 1998. "Economic Integration and Convergence: U.S. Regions, 1840-1987." Journal of Economic History 58 (3): 659-83.
31. Lindert, Peter H. 2004. Growing Public, Volume 1: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press.
32. Long, Jason, and Joseph Ferrie. 2007. "The Path to Convergence: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the US in Three Eras." Economic Journal 117 (519): C61-71.
33. Long, Jason, and Joseph Ferrie. 2013. "Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States Since 1850: Dataset." American Economic Review. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/ aer.103.4.1109.
34. Margo, Robert. 2000. Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
35. Marx, Karl. 1910. Value, Price and Profit. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company.
36. Marx, Karl. 1972. "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napolean." In The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by R. Tucker, 436-525. New York: W. W. Norton.
37. Mazumder, Bhashkar. 2001. "Earnings Mobility in the US: a New Look at Intergenerational Inequality." Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Working Paper 01-18.
38. McMurrer, Daniel P., Mark Condon, and Isabel V. Sawhill. 1997. "Intergenerational Mobility in the United States." Urban Institute Research Paper 406796.
39. Miles, Andrew. 1993. "How Open was Nineteenth-Century British Society? Social Mobility and Equality of Opportunity, 1839-1914." In Building European Society: Occupational Change and Social Mobility in Europe, 1840-1940, edited by Andrew Miles and David Vincent, 18-39. New York: Mancester University Press.
40. Miles, Andrew. 1999. Social Mobility in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England. New York: MacMillan.
41. Mitch, David. 1993. "'Inequalities which Every Man May Remove': Occupational Recruitment, Endogamy, and the Homogeneity of Social Origins in Victorian England." In Building European Society: Occupational Change and Social Mobility in Europe, 1840-1940, edited by Andrew Miles and David Vincent, 140-64. New York: Mancester University Press.
42. Mitchell, B. R. 1962. Abstract of British Historical Statistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
43. Mosteller, Frederick. 1968. "Association and Estimation in Contingency Tables." Journal of the American Statistical Association 63 (321): 1-28.
44. Piketty, Thomas. 1995. "Social Mobility and Redistributive Politics." Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (3): 551-84.
45. Rosenbloom, Joshua L. 1996. "Was There a National Labor Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century? New Evidence on Earnings in Manufacturing." Journal of Economic History 56 (3): 626-56.
46. Ruggles, Steven, Matthew Sobek, Trent Alexander, Catherine A. Fitch, Ronald Goeken, Patricia Kelly Hall, Miriam King, and Chad Ronnander. 2009. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 4.0 [machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. http://ipums-2009.icpsr.umich.edu/usa (accessed April 9, 2013).
47. Schultz, Theodore W. 1961. "Investment in Human Capital." American Economic Review 51 (1): 1-17.
48. Solon, Gary. 1999. "Intergenerational Mobility in the Labor Market." In Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3A, edited by Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, 1761-1800. New York: Elsevier Science.
49. Solon, Gary. 2002. "Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility." Journal of Economic Perspectives 16 (3): 59-66.
50. Sombart, Werner. (1906) 1976. Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? Translated by Patricia Hocking and C. T. Husbands. New York: M. E. Sharpe.
51. Steckel, Richard H. 1988. "Census Matching and Migration: A Research Strategy." Historical Methods 21 (2): 52-60.
52. Steckel, Richard H. 1991. "The Quality of Census Data for Historical Inquiry: A Research Agenda." Social Science History 15 (4): 579-99.
53. Thernstrom, Stephan. 1973. The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
54. Treiman, Donald J., and Harry B. G. Ganzeboom. 2000. "The Fourth Generation of Comparative Stratification Research." In The International Handbook of Sociology, edited by Stella R. Quah and Arnaud Sales, 122-50. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
55. Turner, Frederick Jackson. 1921. The Frontier in American History. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
56. University of Oxford, Oxford Social Mobility Group et al. 1978. Social Mobility Inquiry, 1972 [computer file]. Colchester, UK: Data Archive [distributor].
57. US Census Office. 1891. Distribution of Population According to Density: 1890. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
58. Vincent, David. 1989. Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press.
59. Wilde, Oscar. 1906. The Canterville Ghost. Boston: J.W. Luce.
60. Wong, Raymond Sin-Kwok. 1990. "Understanding Cross-National Variation in Occupational Mobility." American Sociological Review 55 (4): 560-73.
61. Xie, Yu. 1992. "The Log-Multiplicative Layer Effect Model for Comparing Mobility Tables." American Sociological Review 57 (3): 380-95.
62. Yamaguchi, Kazuo. 1987. "Models for Comparing Mobility Tables: Toward Parsimony and Substance." American Sociological Review 52 (4): 482-94.