Intergenerational education mobility trends in South Africa: Patterns by population group

Nicola Branson and Hagos Ressom

No wp-2026-34, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: South Africa's education system remains characterised by high levels of inequality, rooted in a history of racially stratified schooling that created large and persistent differences in educational opportunity across population groups. A central question is whether the expansion of education since the end of apartheid has translated into greater intergenerational mobility, or whether these inequalities continue to shape outcomes.

Keywords: Intergenerational Mobility; Education; Inequality; Discrimination; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publ ... nds-South-Africa.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 403 Forbidden

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2026-34

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().