Moving up and sliding down: An empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing
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- Paul Dolan & Grace Lordan, 2013. "Moving Up and Sliding Down: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing," CEP Discussion Papers dp1190, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
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Keywords
income mobility; social mobility; inter-generational; life satisfaction; SWB; subjective wellbeing; mental health;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
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