Changes in Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India: Evidence from National Sample Surveys, 1983–2012

A. Bheemeshwar Reddy ()

World Development, 2015, vol. 76, issue C, 329-343

Abstract: The last two decades of high economic growth in India has been accompanied by increasing economic inequality. The rise in inequality raises concerns about fall in opportunities for social mobility. This paper examines changes in intergenerational occupational mobility for males in India over three decades (1983–2012). Once we control for changes in occupational structure across the years, we find a decline in intergenerational occupational mobility during 1983–2012 in India. However, the decline in intergenerational occupational mobility was sharper for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, historically deprived sections of the Indian population, than for non-Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

Keywords: intergenerational occupation mobility; caste; inequality of opportunity; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.07.012

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