Social mobility in Germany
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the A-Level share. This parental income gradient has not changed for the birth cohorts of 1980-1996, despite a large-scale policy of expanding upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place effects, rather than sorting of households, account for most of these differences.
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2022
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Authors: | Dodin, Majed ; Findeisen, Sebastian ; Henkel, Lukas ; Sachs, Dominik ; Schüle, Paul |
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München und Berlin : Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München und Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190 - Rationality and Competition |
Subject: | Intergenerational Mobility | Educational Attainment | Local Labor Markets |
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freely available
Series: | Discussion Paper ; 298 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 1801301166 [GVK] hdl:10419/256765 [Handle] |
Classification: | i24 ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197538