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Exploring educational mobility in Europe

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    Identifier:  PC:2395
    Authors:  Calero, Jorge; Raymond Bara, José Luis; Di Paolo, Antonio
    Abstract:
    This paper is concerned with the investigation of the intergenerational mobility of education in several European countries and its changes across birth cohorts (1940-1980) using a new mobility index that considers the total degree of mobility as the weighted sum of mobility with respect to both parents. Moreover, this mobility index enables the analysis of the role of family characteristics as mediating factors in the statistical association between individual and parental education. We find that Nordic countries display lower levels of educational persistence but that the degree of mobility increases over time only in those countries with low initial levels. Moreover, the results suggest that the degree of mobility with respect to fathers and mothers converges to the same level and that family characteristics account for an important part of the statistical association between parental education and children’s schooling; a particular finding is that the most important elements of family characteristics are the family’s socio-economic status and educational assortative mating of the parents.
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    Publisher: Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
    Date: 2010-10
    Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2072/92040
    Departament/Institute: Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
    Language: eng
    Author: Calero, Jorge, Raymond Bara, José Luis, Di Paolo, Antonio
    Relation: XREAP;2010-11
    Format: application/pdf, 398531 bytes, 55 p.
  • Keywords:

    37 - Educació. Ensenyament. Formació. Temps lliure
    33 - Economia
    Europa
    Sociologia de l'educació
    Europe
    Educational sociology
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