Berger, Thor;
Engzell, Per;
Eriksson, Bjoern;
Molinder, Jakob;
(2023)
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State.
The Journal of Economic History
10.1017/S0022050723000098.
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Abstract
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
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0022050723000098 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050723000098 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10168737 |
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