Dynastic Inequality Compared: Multigenerational Mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyze long‐run social mobility in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, and test recent theories of multigenerational persistence of socioeconomic status. In this country comparison setting, we find evidence against a universal law of social mobility. Our results show that the long‐run persistence of socioeconomic status and the validity of a first‐order Markov chain in the intergenerational transmission of human capital is country‐specific. Furthermore, we find that the direct and independent effect of grandparents' social status on grandchildren's status tends to vary by gender and institutional context.
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Neidhöfer and Stockhausen (2019) find similarly high latent persistence in a comparison of three data sets from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
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- Authors
- Neidhöfer, G., & Stockhausen, M.
- Affiliations
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Neidhöfer, Guido
- Venue
- Review of Income and Wealth
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2018-03-14
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 383-414
- ISSN
- 0034-6586 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-4991
- OpenAlex
- W2791587369
- Cited by
- 37
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 5.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Review of Income and Wealth (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Keywords
- intergenerational mobility, human capital transmission, gender differences, institutional environment, cross-national comparison, United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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