Discussion Papers no. 804

Estimating occupational mobility with covariates

This paper presents a method to incorporate individual covariates into such estimates of social mobility, and to construct corresponding confidence intervals.

The Altham statistic is often used to calculate intergenerational associations in occupations in studies of historical social mobility. This paper presents a method to incorporate individual covariates into such estimates of social mobility, and to construct corresponding confidence intervals. The method is applied to an intergenerational sample of Norwegian data, showing that estimates of intergenerational mobility are robust to the inclusion of controls for father's and son's age.

About the publication

Title

Estimating occupational mobility with covariates

Author

Jørgen Modalsli

Series and number

Discussion Papers no. 804

Publisher

Statistics Norway

Topic

Discussion Papers

ISSN

1892-753X

Number of pages

11

Language

English

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