Changing classes, changing preferences
While many studies have identified an association between social class andeconomic preferences, we know little about the implications of changes inclass location for these preferences. This article assesses how social class andintra-generational class mobility affect economic preferences drawing on...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:245178 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/245178 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/01402382.2019.1644575 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Social class Class mobility Economic preferences Public opinion Panel data United-States Support Europe Occupations Britain Values Policy Labor Work |
| Sumario: | While many studies have identified an association between social class andeconomic preferences, we know little about the implications of changes inclass location for these preferences. This article assesses how social class andintra-generational class mobility affect economic preferences drawing on lon-gitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey. In doing so, the art-icle adopts a post-industrial perspective that considers horizontal and verticalclass divisions. Even when time-invariant characteristics of individuals are keptconstant (through fixed-effects estimation), it is found that both vertical andhorizontal class location explain economic preferences. Thus, these estima-tions suggest that social class moulds preferences, even when accounting forfactors that can lead to selection into classes. Moreover, people who changeclasses hold different economic preferences than their peers in the class oforigin, but do not completely assimilate into their class of destination. Thisimplies that growing intra-generational class mobility could undermine theclass basis of political conflict. |
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