Multi-trait matching and intergenerational mobility: A Cinderella story

Natalie Chen, Paola Conconi, Carlo Perroni, Mon, 10/10/2011

Victorian novelist Horatio Alger insisted that hard work and a bit of luck could whisk a boy from rags to riches. CEPR DP8605 outlines a model to measure how social mobility impacts men and women differently. The authors suggest that, paradoxically, women's historically higher social mobility may be due to labour market discrimination--and that reducing the gender wage gap may reduce social mobility overall.

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Topics: Labour markets Poverty and income inequality

Tags: inheritance, women, social mobility, gender earnings gap