Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Men in India

Mehtabul Azam

Journal of Development Studies, 2015, vol. 51, issue 10, 1389-1408

Abstract: We examine the intergenerational occupational mobility among men born during 1945-1985 in India. We distinguish between prevalence and association, and use the Altham Statistic as a measure of distance between son-father occupation associations across birth cohorts/social groups. We also attempt to isolate the specific odds ratios that account for the largest part of the distance. We find that the mobility in the 1975-1984 birth cohort is higher than the mobility in the 1945-1954 birth cohort. Scheduled Castes/Tribes born during 1965-1984 experienced a higher mobility compared with the entire 1965-1984 birth cohort or higher castes born during 1965-1984.

Date: 2015
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