• Estimating occupational mobility with covariates 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-08)
      The Altham statistic is often used to calculate intergenerational associations in occupations in studies of historical social mobility. This paper presents a method to incorporate individual covariates into such estimates ...
    • Intergenerational Mobility in Norway, 1865–2011 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-16)
      There are large differences in intergenerational mobility between countries. Little is known, however, about how persistent such differences are, and how they evolve over time. This paper constructs a data set of 835,537 ...
    • The regional dispersion of income inequality in nineteenth-century Norway 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-12)
      This paper documents, for the first time, municipality- and occupation-level estimates of income inequality between individuals in a European country in the nineteenth century, using a combination of several detailed data ...