Journal Article

Intergenerational social mobility in OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta, Johansson, Asa

2010

Overview

\"This paper assesses recent patterns of intergenerational social mobility across OECD countries and examines the role that public policies can play. It shows that the relationship between parental or socio-economic background and offspring educational and wage outcomes is positive and significant in practically all countries for which evidence is available. Intergenerational social mobility is measured by several different indicators, since no single indicator provides a complete picture. However, one pattern that emerges is of a group of countries, southern European countries and Luxembourg, which appears to rank as relatively immobile on most indicators, while another group, the Nordic countries, is found to be more mobile. Furthermore, public policies such as education and early childcare play a role in explaining observed differences in intergenerational social mobility across countries.\" Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2005 bis 2006. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).

• Publisher: OECD Publishing,OECD,Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Subject: Australien / Belgien / Beruflicher Aufstieg / Bildungsabschluss / Bildungsmobilität / Bildungspolitik / Child care / Children & youth / Cognition & reasoning / Cognitive ability / Determinante / Deutschland / Dänemark / Economic opportunities / economics / Education / Education policy / Einkommenshöhe / Equality / Familienpolitik / Families & family life / Finnland / Frankreich / Generation / Gesellschaftspolitik / Griechenland / Großbritannien / Inequality / Institution / Intergenerational mobility / Intergenerational relationships / Intergenerationale Übertragung / International / Internationaler Vergleich / Irland / Island / Italien / Japan / Kanada / Labor market / Labor productivity / Luxemburg / Mexiko / Mobilität / Neuseeland / Niederlande / Norwegen / OECD (Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung) / OECD-Staaten / Parent-child relations / Parents & parenting / Polen / Portugal / Productivity / Public policy / Role / Roles / Schweden / Schweiz / Slowakei / Social mobility / Social norms / Society / Socioeconomic factors / Soziale Herkunft / Soziale Mobilität / Sozialer Aufstieg / Sozialer Status / Sozialpolitik / Soziokultureller Faktor / Spanien / Studies / Südkorea / Tschechien / Türkei / Ungarn / Upward mobility / USA / Wages & salaries / Österreich