 Ordinal Variables and the Measurement of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European CountriesBénédicte Apouey, Zoya Nissanov and Jacques Silber Post-Print from HAL Abstract: This article proposes a new approach to the measurement of intergenerational mobility in education. Borrowing the concept of inequality-sensitive and additive achievement measure axiomatically developed by Apouey et al., we derive new indices of upward, downward, and total mobility, using a "movement approach." It turns out that the Prais-Bibby and Bartholomew mobility indices are particular cases of the mobility indices we introduce. We then present an empirical illustration based on the 2016 European Social Survey. Particular attention is given to within country differences between fathers to children and mothers to children educational mobility. When comparing two countries, we also make a distinction between gross and net mobility, the latter referring to the case where country differences in the educational structure of parents and children are neutralized. Keywords: Intergenerational mobility; Gross and net mobility; Bartholomew index; Prais-Bibby index; Shapley decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), pp.776-800. ⟨10.1111/roiw.12584⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-03672131 DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12584 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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