The Path to Convergence: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the US in Three Eras
利用英美父子配对数据，比较19世纪末至20世纪中期两国代际职业流动的演变，发现美国早期流动性更高但差距逐渐缩小并消失。
Late nineteenth-century intergenerational occupational mobility was higher in the US than in Britain. Differences between them in this type of mobility are absent today. Using data on 10, 000 US and British father and son pairs followed over two intervals (the 1860s and 1870s, and the 1880s and 1890s), we examine how this convergence occurred. The US remained more mobile then Britain through 1900 but the difference fell over the last two decades of the nineteenth century (as British mobility rose) and was erased by the 1950s (as mobility fell by more in the US than in Britain). Copyright 2007 The Author(s). Journal compilation Royal Economic Society 2007.