Social Mobility in Germany
Majed Dodin, Sebastian Findeisen, Lukas Henkel, Dominik Sachs, Paul Schüle
We characterize intergenerational social mobility in Germany using census data on the educational attainment of 526,000 children and their parents’ earnings. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university and the most important qualification in the German education system. On average, a 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the probability to obtain an A-Level. This parental income gradient has not changed for the birth cohorts from 1980 to 1996, despite a large-scale policy of expanding upper secondary education in Germany. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place effects, rather than sorting of households into different regions, seem to account for most of these geographical differences. Mobile regions are, among other aspects, characterized by high school quality and enhanced possibilities to obtain an A-Level degree in vocational schools.
Year of publication: |
2021
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Authors: | Dodin, Majed ; Findeisen, Sebastian ; Henkel, Lukas ; Sachs, Dominik ; Schüle, Paul |
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Konstanz : KOPS Universität Konstanz |
Subject: | Intergenerational Mobility | Educational Attainment | Local Labor Markets | Soziale Mobilität | Social mobility | Deutschland | Germany | Intergenerationenmobilität | Intergenerational mobility | Bildungsniveau | Educational achievement | Bildungsabschluss | Educational attainment | Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt | Regional labour market | Arbeitsmobilität | Labour mobility | Bildungsverhalten | Educational behaviour | Intergenerationale Übertragung | Intergenerational transfer |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | Working Paper Series. - Konstanz : Universität Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence The Politics of Inequality, ZDB-ID 3062676-6. - Vol. no 04 (July 2021) |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/240321 [Handle] |
Classification: | i24 ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613784