Intergenerational Class Mobility in England/Wales, France and Sweden
Intergenerational class mobility among the male populations of England and Wales; France, and Sweden.
erikson
A table of counts, with classifying factors origin
(father's
class; levels I
, II
, III
, IVa
,
IVb
, IVc
, V/VI
,
VIIa
, VIIb
) destination
(son's
class; levels as before), and country
(son's country of
residence; levels EW
, F
, S
).
Hauser, R. M. (1984) Vertical Class Mobility in England, France and Sweden. Acta Sociol., 27(2), 87-110.
Erikson, R., Goldthorpe, J. H. and Portocarero, L. (1982) Social Fluidity in Industrial Nations: England, France and Sweden. Brit. J. Sociol. 33(1), 1-34.
Xie, Y. (1992) The Log-multiplicative Layer Effect Model for Comparing Mobility Tables. Am. Sociol. Rev. 57(3), 380-395.
set.seed(1) ### Collapse to 7 by 7 table as in Erikson (1982) erikson <- as.data.frame(erikson) lvl <- levels(erikson$origin) levels(erikson$origin) <- levels(erikson$destination) <- c(rep(paste(lvl[1:2], collapse = " + "), 2), lvl[3], rep(paste(lvl[4:5], collapse = " + "), 2), lvl[6:9]) erikson <- xtabs(Freq ~ origin + destination + country, data = erikson) ### Fit the models given in first half of Table 3 of Xie (1992) ## Null association between origin and destination nullModel <- gnm(Freq ~ country*origin + country*destination, family = poisson, data = erikson) ## Full interaction, common to all countries commonInteraction <- update(nullModel, ~ . + origin:destination) ## Full Interaction, different multiplier for each country multInteraction <- update(nullModel, ~ . + Mult(Exp(country), origin:destination)) ### Create array of interaction levels as in Table 2 of Xie (1992) levelMatrix <- matrix(c(2, 3, 4, 6, 5, 6, 6, 3, 3, 4, 6, 4, 5, 6, 4, 4, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 5, 1, 6, 5, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 5, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 5, 3, 5, 4, 1), 7, 7, byrow = TRUE) ### Fit models in second half of Table 3 in Xie (1992) ## Interaction specified by levelMatrix, common to all countries commonTopo <- update(nullModel, ~ . + Topo(origin, destination, spec = levelMatrix)) ## Interaction specified by levelMatrix, different multiplier for ## each country multTopo <- update(nullModel, ~ . + Mult(Exp(country), Topo(origin, destination, spec = levelMatrix))) ## Interaction specified by levelMatrix, different effects for ## each country separateTopo <- update(nullModel, ~ . + country:Topo(origin, destination, spec = levelMatrix))
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