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Scraping the bottom of the barrel? Evidence on social mobility and internal migration from rural areas in nineteenth-century Norway

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Pages 252-272 | Received 07 Jul 2020, Accepted 16 Feb 2021, Published online: 11 May 2021

Figures & data

Table 1. Match rates.

Table 2. Origin and destination provinces for rural-to-urban migrants. Row = 100%.

Table 3. Origin and destination provinces for rural-to-rural migrants. Row = 100%.

Table 4. Distribution of rural-rural and rural-urban migration flows by distance.

Figure 1. Shares of non-migrants, rural migrants and urban migrants by father's social status.

Figure 1. Shares of non-migrants, rural migrants and urban migrants by father's social status.

Figure 2. Distribution of sons’ occupational HISCAM statuses in 1900 by their migration status and parental occupational status.

Figure 2. Distribution of sons’ occupational HISCAM statuses in 1900 by their migration status and parental occupational status.

Table 5. Top 5 son’s occupations and their shares in 1900 by father’s lower and higher occupational status. HISCAM score in parentheses. Rural-rural migrants and rural-urban migrants.

Table 6. A summary of determinants of occupational status and migration equations.

Figure 3. Distribution of sons’ expected occupational gains by their migration status and parental occupational status.

Figure 3. Distribution of sons’ expected occupational gains by their migration status and parental occupational status.

Table 7. Maximum likelihood results: determinants of occupational status attainment and rural-urban migration.

Table 8. Self-selection on observables in migration.

Table A1. Summary statistics of 1865 characteristics in the final matched sample and population.

Table A2. Sample means and standard deviations for rural-urban migrants, rural-rural migrants and rural stayers.