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
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Estimating occupational mobility with covariates
- Author
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Jørgen Modalsli
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Discussion Papers no. 804
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Statistics Norway
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Discussion Papers
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1892-753X
- Language
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English
- About Discussion Papers
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Discussion papers comprise research papers intended for international journals and books. A preprint of a Discussion Paper may be longer and more elaborate than a standard journal article as it may include intermediate calculations, background material etc.
Contact
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Jørgen Heibø Modalsli
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Statistics Norway's Information Centre