Are the Upwardly-Mobile More Left-Wing?

Arbeitspapier

It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual's starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and parental social status are independently positively associated with Rightleaning voting and political preferences: given their own social status, the upwardly-mobile are therefore more Left-wing. We investigate a number of potential mediators: these results do not reflect the relationship between well-being and own and parents' social status, but are rather linked to the individual's beliefs about how fair society is.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16290

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Sociology of Economics ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: social mobility ; voting ; redistribution ; satisfaction ; fairness

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Clark, Andrew E. ; Cotofan, Maria
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2023

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/278988
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET