Like (grand)parent, like child? Multigenerational mobility across the EU.

Autor/inn/en	Colagrossi, Marco; D'Hombres, Beatrice; Schnepf, Sylke V.
Titel	Like (grand)parent, like child? Multigenerational mobility across the EU. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Wie die (Groß-)eltern, so das Kind? Multigenerationale Mobilität in der EU.
Quelle	In: European economic review, 130 (2020) November, Art. 103600 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0014-2921; 1873-572X
DOI	10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103600
Schlagwörter	Bildungsmobilität; Soziale Ungleichheit; Generation; Mehrgenerationenfamilie; Mobilität; Sozialer Status; Ausdauer; Internationaler Vergleich; Europäische Union; Belgien; Bulgarien; Dänemark; Estland; Finnland; Frankreich; Griechenland; Großbritannien; Irland; Italien; Kroatien; Lettland; Litauen; Luxemburg; Malta; Niederlande; Polen; Portugal; Rumänien; Schweden; Slowakei; Slowenien; Spanien; Tschechische Republik; Ungarn; Zypern; Österreich
Abstract	"This study shows that the multigenerational transmission of inequality in most of the 28 EU countries is higher than what a parent-to-child paradigm would suggest. While a strand of the literature claims that this is due to a direct grandparental effect, economic historian Gregory Clark argues that multigenerational mobility follows a Markovian process. In his view, not only are previous estimates (severely) attenuated by an errors-in-variables problem, but persistence is also constant across time and space. Using a unique retrospective survey containing information on three generations of European citizens, we provide suggestive evidence against such a 'universal law of mobility'. While estimates based on measurement error models show that persistence is indeed as strong as Clark suggests, there are cross-country differences. Furthermore, for a few EU countries, we cannot reject the hypothesis of a direct grandparental effect. Overall, there is no single data-generating process to describe multigenerational persistence that fits all EU countries.22This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Declarations of interest: none." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/3