A new proposal to gauge intergenerational mobility: educational mobility in Europe as a case study

This paper is aimed at presenting a new intergenerational mobility index that (a) combines the intergenerational elasticity and the R-squared of the intergenerational regression and (b) enables the expression of the total degree of mobility as the weighted sum of mobility with respect to both parent...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Di Paolo, Antonio, Raymond Bara, José Luís, Calero, Jorge, 1963-
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2013
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/107602
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/107602
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Mobilitat social
Educació
Demografia
Mobilitat laboral
Social mobility
Education
Demography
Labor mobility
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Summary:This paper is aimed at presenting a new intergenerational mobility index that (a) combines the intergenerational elasticity and the R-squared of the intergenerational regression and (b) enables the expression of the total degree of mobility as the weighted sum of mobility with respect to both parents. As a case study, we apply our proposal to investigate the intergenerational mobility of education in several European countries and its changes across birth cohorts. The results derived from the proposed index indicate that Nordic countries display higher levels of educational mobility than Southern countries, whereas continental countries are in an intermediate position