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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- © 2017 The editors of The Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
- ISSN
- 0347-0520
- eISSN
- 1467-9442
- DOI
- 10.1111/sjoe.12224
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Scand. J. of Economics 119(1), 3–4, 2017 DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12224 Intergenerational Mobility: Guest Editors’ Preface Researchers as well as policymakers are increasingly interested in questions of intergenerational mobility in advanced industrial societies. The six papers in this special issue contribute to this major research program. The first three papers in this issue focus on the facts of intergenerational mobility. The paper by Pekkarinen, Salvanes, and Sarvimaki ¨ and the pa- per by Modalsli provide systematic analyses of mobility in Norway. Both papers document substantial increases in mobility in the latter two-thirds of the twentieth century compared to the past. Reasons for this are sug- gested, including improvements in education and the shift of the Norwegian economy away from farming. As such, the findings are suggestive of the interplay of policy and technology in mobility dynamics. Bratberg et al. expand the analysis to compare Norway with Germany, Sweden, and the US. Their analysis demonstrates that the US exhibits a lower rate of upward mobility for those at the bottom of the income distribution as opposed to their European counterparts. The second three papers turn towards the mechanisms that determine rates of mobility. Caucutt, Lochner, and Park present a theoretical model of
Journal
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 2017