The Myth of Nordic Mobility: Social Mobility Rates in Modern Denmark and Sweden
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Keywords
intergenerational mobility; social mobility; assortative mating;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2025-04-07 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-HIS-2025-04-07 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LTV-2025-04-07 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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