Firms and the Labor Market Determinants of Economic Mobility

Research has found that high earnings inequality is associated with low intergenerational economic mobility, however, it has primarily focused on early life investments and less on relative pay in different industries. Sociologists Nathan Wilmers and Per Engzell will examine the extent to which firm-level practices affect intergenerational economic mobility. They will analyze data from the United States and Sweden for their study, including Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics data and Census data (U.S.) as well as data from the Longitudinal Integration Database for Health Insurance and Labor Market Studies and the Multigeneration Register (Sweden).