Social Mobility in Germany

Majed Dodin, Sebastian Findeisen, Lukas Henkel, Dominik Sachs and Paul Schüle
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Majed Dodin: University of Mannheim
Lukas Henkel: European Central Bank
Dominik Sachs: LMU Munich
Paul Schüle: LMU Munich and ifo Institute

No 298, Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series from CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition

Abstract: We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the A-Level share. This parental income gradient has not changed for the birth cohorts of 1980-1996, despite a large-scale policy of expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place effects, rather than sorting of households, account for most of these differences.

Keywords: intergenerational mobility; educational attainment; local labor markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J62 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-11-15
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