Intergenerational Mobility in the 19th Century: Micro-Level Evidence from the City of Zurich

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INTERGENERATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY IN 19TH-CENTURY SPAIN (VALENCIA), 1841-1870

“…Favre et al (2018) showed similar results for 19 th -century Zurich, where rapid growth, industrialisation and institutional changes did not increase the levels of intergenerational social mobility.…”

Bias in Social Mobility Estimates with Historical Data: Evidence from Swiss Microdata

“…Data Source The data originate from the same twenty-five editions of the directory of citizens of the city of Zurich between 1799 and 1926 as described in Favre et al (2018). This source contains the universe of Zurich's adult male citizenry.…”

“…Classifications of Occupations I employ the same set of occupational classifications as described in Favre et al (2018). For the main part of the analysis, I divide occupations into low, middle, and high socioeconomic positions (SEP).…”

“…The data at hand allow to estimate intergenerational mobility taking all of these potential sources of bias into consideration (as in Favre et al, 2018). Even more importantly, it is possible to quantify the magnitude and direction of the mentioned distortions as the employed data set includes true intergenerational links, allows me to track individuals over the course of their lives, and even provides information after emigration.…”