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UPWARD STRUCTURAL MOBILITY, EXCHANGE MOBILITY, AND SUBGROUP CONSISTENT MOBILITY MEASUREMENT: U.S.–GERMAN MOBILITY RANKINGS REVISITED
Author(s) -
Schluter Christian,
Van de gaer Dirk
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2009.00372.x
Subject(s) - social mobility , german , economics , econometrics , individual mobility , measure (data warehouse) , mobility model , labor mobility , demographic economics , labour economics , mathematics , statistics , computer science , sociology , telecommunications , geography , social science , archaeology , database
We formalize the concept of upward structural mobility and use the framework of subgroup consistent mobility measurement to derive a relative and an absolute measure of mobility that is increasing in upward structural mobility and compatible with the notion of exchange mobility. In our empirical illustration, we contribute substantively to the ongoing debate about mobility rankings between the U.S. and Germany by demonstrating that the U.S. typically does exhibit more upward structural mobility than Germany.