Social Mobility in Italy since the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Antonio Schizzerotto () and Sonia Marzadro ()
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Antonio Schizzerotto: University of Trent
Sonia Marzadro: Opes, Trent

Rivista di Politica Economica, 2008, vol. 98, issue 5, 5-40

Abstract: The article deals with the main features of social mobility processes in contemporary Italy and their changes during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Both absolute (intergenerational and career) mobility and patterns of associations between class of origin and destination in three birth cohorts are studied. The analyses confirm a quite modest shift towards greater social fluidity in the allocation of individuals among the different occupational positions. Nevertheless, ascription still prevails over achievement, and this prevalence is strengthened by the process of family formation, which is based on rather effective mechanisms of social closure.

Keywords: intergenerational mobility; career mobility; social fluidity; occupational homo-heterogamy; log-linear models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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