Ordinal Variables and the Measurement of Upward and Downward Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Countries

Article dans une revue: This article proposes a new approach to the measurement of intergenerational mobility in education. Borrowing the concept of inequality-sensitive and additive achievement measure axiomatically developed by Apouey et al., we derive new indices of upward, downward, and total mobility, using a "movement approach." It turns out that the Prais-Bibby and Bartholomew mobility indices are particular cases of the mobility indices we introduce. We then present an empirical illustration based on the 2016 European Social Survey. Particular attention is given to within country differences between fathers to children and mothers to children educational mobility. When comparing two countries, we also make a distinction between gross and net mobility, the latter referring to the case where country differences in the educational structure of parents and children are neutralized.

Auteur(s)

Bénédicte Apouey, Zoya Nissanov, Jacques Silber

Revue
  • Review of Income and Wealth
Date de publication
  • 2023
Mots-clés
  • Intergenerational mobility
  • Gross and net mobility
  • Bartholomew index
  • Prais-Bibby index
  • Shapley decomposition
Pages
  • 776-800
Version
  • 1
Volume
  • 69