Research Catalog

Title

Intergenerational Social Mobility [electronic resource] / Orsetta Causa and Åsa Johansson

Author

Causa, Orsetta.

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2009.

Details

Additional Authors

Johansson, Åsa.

Description

71 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

This paper assesses recent patterns in intergenerational social mobility across OECD countries and examines the role that public policies can play in affecting such mobility. It shows that the relationship between parental or socio-economic background and offspring's 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, e.g. southern European countries and Luxembourg, which appears to rank as relatively immobile on most indicators, while another group, e.g. Nordics, 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. In addition, this study also finds a positive cross-country correlation between intergenerational social mobility and redistributive policies.

Series Statement

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.707

Uniform Title

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.707.

Subject

Economics

LCCN

10.1787/223106258208

OCLC

oecd-lib

Author

Causa, Orsetta.

Title

Intergenerational Social Mobility [electronic resource] / Orsetta Causa and Åsa Johansson

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2009.

Series

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.707

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.707.

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Indexed Term

Economics

Added Author

Johansson, Åsa.

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/223106258208 doi