Intergenerational Mobility in Norway: Transition Probabilities and Directional Rank Mobility

Abstract

This thesis applies newly developed measurers of intergenerational income mobility on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955 and 1960. It looks at two groups: difference between genders and difference between intact and disrupted families. Significant gaps between sons and daughters in both upwards and in downwards mobility are found. It is found that daughters are more downward mobile and less upward mobile than sons, and the gender-gap seems to somewhat decrease over the time period of the study. The main contribution to this decrease is an increase in upward mobility and a decrease in downward mobility for daughters. Using the the same methods to study the difference between intact and disrupted families in the 1960 cohort, there seem to be tendency that children of intact families are slightly more upward mobile and slightly less downwards mobile compared to disrupted families. Data used in this thesis is are provided by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Statistics and data analysis is are done in STATA 13 and the thesis is written in LaTex