Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192786 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 804
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational occupational mobility
Altham statistic
JEL: 
J62
N34
C46
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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