Switzer-Land of Opportunity: Intergenerational Income Mobility in the Land of Vocational Education.

Autor/inn/en	Chuard, Patrick; Grassi, Veronica
Titel	Switzer-Land of Opportunity: Intergenerational Income Mobility in the Land of Vocational Education. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Schweiz - Land der Möglichkeiten: Intergenerationale Einkommensmobilität im Land der Berufsausbildung.
Quelle	St. Gallen (2020), 62 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Universität Sankt Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics. 2020-11
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungsbeteiligung; Bildungsmobilität; Bildungsniveau; Generation; Bildungsertrag; Regionale Disparität; Mobilität; Einkommen; Einkommenshöhe; Hochschulbildung; Schweiz
Abstract	"This paper documents intergenerational income mobility in Switzerland. We use a unique administrative data set which links the universe of labor incomes since 1982 over generations and is matched to census and survey data. We find that relative income mobility in terms of rank-rank slope (0.15) is substantially higher than in the US and even higher than in Sweden. At the same time, we find that (academic) educational mobility is low. This shows that high income mobility can be achieved even without high educational mobility. However, to reach the top from the bottom ("American Dream"), academic education is still key: Children from the bottom quintile who went to gymnasium or got a master's degree are more likely to reach the top quintile compared to their peers in the vocational education track. Looking at regional variation in mobility, we find lower absolute, but higher relative mobility in French- and Italiancompared to German-speaking areas." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/3