Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Thor Berger, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala University; Per Engzell, University of Oxford; Björn Eriksson, Lund University; Jakob Molinder, Uppsala University

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Project Citation: 

Berger, Thor, Engzell, Per, Eriksson, Björn, and Molinder, Jakob. Social Mobility in Sweden before the Welfare State. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-02-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E182882V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary 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 19th- and 20th-century European countries, closer to those observed in the highly mobile 19th-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.



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