Rising Intragenerational Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1969 to 2011.

ABSTRACT: Despite the theoretical importance of intragenerational mobility and its connection to intergenerational mobility, no study since the 1970s has documented trends in intragenerational occupational mobility. The present article fills this intellectual gap by presenting evidence of an increasing trend in intragenerational mobility in the United States from 1969 to 2011. We decompose the trend using a nested occupational classification scheme that distinguishes between disaggregated micro-classes and progressively more aggregated meso-classes, macro-classes, and manual and nonmanual sectors. Log-linear analysis reveals that mobility increased across the occupational structure at nearly all levels of aggregation, especially after the early 1990s. Controlling for structural changes in occupation

SUBMITTER: Jarvis BF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5621767 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature