Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192780 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 798
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
There are large differences in intergenerational mobility between countries. However, little is known about how persistent such differences are, and how they evolve over time. This paper constructs a data set of 835,537 linked father-son pairs from census records and documents a substantial increase in intergenerational occupational mobility in Norway between 1865 and 2011. The increase is most pronounced in nonfarm occupations. The findings show that long-run mobility developments previously described for the US and UK are not necessarily representative for other countries, and that high mobility in a given country today need not reflect high mobility before industrialization.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational mobility
Occupations
Mobility measurement
Economic history
JEL: 
J62
N33
N34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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