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Title: The Declining Significance of Occupational Contingency Tables in the Study of Intergenerational Mobility

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: The study of intergenerational mobility was once viewed as a quintessentially sociological topic that was widely investigated using occupational mobility tables. However, the popularity of occupational mobility tables seems to be rapidly dwindling. This change is associated with the increasing popularity of the economic approach to modeling intergenerational mobility which is not encumbered by the shortcomings of occupational mobility tables. The first limitation of the latter is the contextual nature of occupation which provides an increasingly imprecise indicator of the individual’s earnings or other socioeconomic outcomes. The second limitation is the lack of focus on long-term earnings and the continued reliance on cross-sectional data in an era of increased labor market volatility. The third limitation is the dubious practice of partitioning mobility into structural-mobility versus circulation-mobility and focusing on primarily the latter to make generalizations about the level of social fluidity in society. The fourth limitation is the failure of occupational models to discern important . . .

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Authors: Sakamoto, Arthur; Wang, Sharron X

Publisher: Texas A&M University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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