Abstract
This text was published in March 2007 in the "OECD Social, Employment, and Migration Working Papers", and was written by Anna Cristina d'Addio. The aim of this paper is to analyze intergenerational mobility in OECD countries and especially the factors affecting it. Intergenerational mobility is defined as the change of social position of an individual in comparison to his parents. This mobility can be vertical and upward when the movement is bottom up (the son of a worker becomes an executive), vertical and downward when the movement is from top to bottom (the son of an executive becomes a worker) or horizontal when there is neither social regression nor social upward mobility.
