Intergenerational Occupational Mobility across Three Continents
比较19世纪末阿根廷、美国、英国和挪威的代际职业流动性，发现阿根廷和美国流动性高于英国和挪威，表明美国的高流动性并非“美国例外论”，而是新世界移民经济体与欧洲的普遍差异。
I compare rates of intergenerational occupational mobility across four countries in the late nineteenth century: 1869–1895 Argentina, 1850–1880 United States, 1851–1881 Britain, and 1865–1900 Norway. Argentina and the United States had similar levels of intergenerational mobility, and these levels were above those of Britain and Norway. These findings suggest that the higher mobility of nineteenth-century United States relative to Britain might not have been a reflection of “American exceptionalism,” but rather a manifestation of more widespread differences between settler economies of the New World and Europe.