Thor Berger
Biträdande universitetslektor
Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State
Författare
Summary, in English
We use historical census data to show that Sweden exhibited high levels of intergenerational occupational mobility several decades before the rise of the welfare state. Mobility rates were higher than in other nineteenth- and twentieth-century European countries, closer to those observed in the highly mobile nineteenth-century United States. We leverage mobility variation across Swedish municipalities to shed light on potential determinants: economic growth and migration are positively correlated with mobility, consistent with the patterns observed across countries.
Avdelning/ar
- Ekonomisk demografi
- Centrum för ekonomisk demografi
- Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2023
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Economic History
Volym
102
Issue
5
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Ämne
- Economic History
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0022-0507