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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14491
	DP14491 Frontiers of Mobility: Was Australia 1870-2017 a more Socially Mobile Society than England?
	Gregory Clark; Andrew Leigh; Mike Pottenger
发表日期	2020-03-14
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	There is longstanding pride among Australians that by throwing off the social class demarcations that defined the ossified parent society, England, they created an open, socially mobile society. The paper tests this belief by estimating long run social mobility rates in Australia 1870-2017, using the status of rare surnames. The status information includes occupations from electoral rolls 1903-1980, and records of degrees awarded by Melbourne and Sydney universities 1852-2017. Status persistence was strong throughout, with an intergenerational correlation of occupational or educational status of 0.7-0.8, and no change over time. Mobility rates were also just as low for mobility rates within UK immigrants and their descendants, so ethnic effects explain none of the immobility. The much less pronounced class divisions of Australia compared to England did not enhance social mobility. One sign of apparent enhanced Australian social mobility – the fact that surnames associated with convicts already had a modest elite status by 1870 – seems to derive from convicts transported to Australia from England being positively selected in terms of human capital.
主题	Economic History ; Labour Economics
关键词	Intergenerational social mobility
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14491
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543390
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gregory Clark,Andrew Leigh,Mike Pottenger. DP14491 Frontiers of Mobility: Was Australia 1870-2017 a more Socially Mobile Society than England?. 2020.