Intergenerational Occupational Mobility across Three Continents

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050719000032
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 383-416
• 关键词: UNITED-STATES; great-britain; CONVERGENCE; LAND; US

摘要

I compare rates of intergenerational occupational mobility across four countries in the late nineteenth century: 1869-1895 Argentina, 1850-1880 United States, 1851-1881 Britain, and 1865-1900 Norway. Argentina and the United States had similar levels of intergenerational mobility, and these levels were above those of Britain and Norway. These findings suggest that the higher mobility of nineteenth-century United States relative to Britain might not have been a reflection of American exceptionalism, but rather a manifestation of more widespread differences between settler economies of the New World and Europe.