Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173431 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 274
Publisher: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Abstract: 
We analyze social mobility of decennial citizenry cohorts of Zurich born between 1780 and 1870. We categorize individuals according to their occupations and use different measures to show the level, change, and components of intergenerational mobility. Mobility was imperfect and weakly decreasing over time. Both level and change are driven by intergenerational persistence of occupations with a low socioeconomic position and low transition between low and high socioeconomic position.
Subjects: 
Social mobility
occupational mobility
19th century
Switzerland
JEL: 
J62
N33
N34
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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