Multi-trait matching and intergenerational mobility: A Cinderella story

Natalie Chen [1], Paola Conconi [2], Carlo Perroni [3], 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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URL: www.cepr.org/DP8605 [8]

Topics: Labour markets [9] Poverty and income inequality [10]

Tags: inheritance [11], women [12], social mobility [13], gender earnings gap [14]

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[1] https://voxeu.org/user/219957
[2] https://voxeu.org/user/219811
[3] https://voxeu.org/user/221683
[4] https://voxeu.org/sites/default/files/file/DP8605.pdf
[5] http://www.cepr.org/subscribers/subscription_options_rates.htm
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[8] https://voxeu.org/www.cepr.org/DP8605
[9] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/labour-markets
[10] https://voxeu.org/content/topics/poverty-and-income-inequality
[11] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/273
[12] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/2589
[13] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/3155
[14] https://voxeu.org/taxonomy/term/3179