Berger, Thor;
Engzell, Per;
(2022)
Industrial automation and intergenerational income mobility in the United States.
Social Science Research
, 104
, Article 102686. 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102686.
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Abstract
This article examines how the automation of jobs has shaped spatial patterns of intergenerational income mobility in the United States over the past three decades. Using data on the spread of industrial robots across 722 local labor markets, we find significantly lower rates of upward mobility in areas more exposed to automation. The erosion of mobility chances is rooted in childhood environments and is particularly evident among males growing up in low-income households. These findings reveal how recent technological advances have contributed to the unequal patterns of economic opportunity in the United States today.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Industrial automation and intergenerational income mobility in the United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102686 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102686 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Deindustrialization, Income distribution, Intergenerational mobility, Regional inequality, Social mobility, Technological change |
| 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/10168738 |
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