markovchain (version 0.0.9.5)

blanden: Mobility between income quartiles

Description

This table show mobility between income quartiles for father and sons for the 1970 cohort born

Usage

data(blanden)

format

The format is: table [1:4, 1:4] 0.38 0.25 0.21 0.16 0.29 0.28 0.26 0.17 0.22 0.26 ... - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2 ..$ : chr [1:4] "Bottom" "2nd" "3rd" "Top" ..$ : chr [1:4] "Bottom" "2nd" "3rd" "Top"

source

Giorgio Spedicato from references

Details

The rows represent father's income quartile when the son is aged 16, whilst the columns represent sons' income quartiles when he is aged 30 (in 2000).

References

Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin, Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America, Center for Economic Performances (2005)

Examples

data(blanden)
mobilityMc<-as(blanden, "markovchain")