Exploring educational mobility in Europe

Antonio Di Paolo, Josep Raymond () and Jorge Calero
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Jorge Calero: Universitat de Barcelona & IEB

No 2010/10, Working Papers from Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the investigation of the intergenerational mobility of education in several European countries and its changes across birth cohorts (1940-1980), using a new mobility index that considers the total degree of mobility as the weighted sum of mobility with respect to both parents. Moreover, this mobility index enables the analysis of the role of family characteristics as mediating factors in the statistical association between individual and parental education. We find that Nordic countries display lower levels of educational persistence but that the degree of mobility increases over time only in those countries with low initial levels. Moreover, the results suggest that the degree of mobility with respect to fathers and mothers converges to the same level and that family characteristics accounts for an important part of the statistical association between parental education and children’s schooling; a particular finding is that the most important elements of family characteristics are the family’s socio-economic status and educational assortative mating of the parents.

Keywords: educational economics; intergenerational mobility; Europe; birth cohorts; family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 I21 I29 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2010
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