Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender.

Autor/inn/en	Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta
Titel	Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Intergenerationale Übertragung von wirtschaftlichem Erfolg in Österreich mit Blick auf Migration und Geschlecht.
Quelle	In: Journal for labour market research, 54 (2020) Art. 6, 20 S.Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1867-8343; 2510-5027
DOI	10.1186/s12651-020-00272-y
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Bildungsmobilität; Soziale Herkunft; Soziale Mobilität; Generation; Europäisches Haushaltspanel; Mobilität; Auswirkung; Geschlechtsspezifik; Österreich
Abstract	"In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of the investigation is a two-step estimation procedure, where we detect a significant positve intergenerational association between the economic situation of the parental household and educational attainments as well as gross hourly wages of their male and female descendants independently. Furthermore, we shed some light on the intergenerational social mobility black box by explaining the direct effect of the income situation of the parental generation on attainable wages of the child generation within the transmission system. It turns out that this effect is significantly underestimated when applying ordinary least squares regressions only, where the perceived socioeconomic status is taken exogenous. Finally, we apply instrumental variable quantile regressions to demonstrate that the direct intergenerational economic association between parents and their descendants is strongest for top earners. Alongside this proceeding, we introduce an alternative way to think about the impact of a bundle of additional intergenerational transmission channels like cognitive ability, noncognitive personal traits, and aspects of physical appearance on an empirical level. Overall, the findings of the paper, where special attention is paid to migrants, offer a better understanding on the intergenerational transmission of economic success mechanism and to what extent this process influences income persistence between generations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/1