Education, Skills, and Intergenerational Inequality in Status Attainment: Causal Mediation Analysis and Typology of 23 OECD Countries.

Autor/in	Araki, Satoshi
Titel	Education, Skills, and Intergenerational Inequality in Status Attainment: Causal Mediation Analysis and Typology of 23 OECD Countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Bildung, Qualifikationen und intergenerationelle Ungleichheit bei der Statuserreichung: Kausalvermittlungsanalyse und Typologie von 23 OECD-Ländern.
Quelle	In: The British journal of sociology, (2026) online first, 15 June 2026, 19 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-4446
DOI	10.1111/1468-4446.70139
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Bildungsmobilität; Intergenerationsmobilität; Soziale Ungleichheit; Kognitive Kompetenz; Soziale Herkunft; Benachteiligtenförderung; Bildungsförderung; Bildungsabschluss; Ungleichheit; Sozialer Status; Berufserfolg; Internationaler Vergleich; Auswirkung; Typologie; OECD (Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung)
Abstract	"Scholars have long investigated intergenerational inequality, with attention to the associations among social origins, education, and socio-economic destinations: the so-called OED triangle. Meanwhile, recent research highlights distinct roles of education and skills in status attainment. Extending these studies, this article proposes a new framework-theOESD quadrangle-that incorporates origin, education, skills, and destination to better understand the structure of intergenerational inequality and its cross-national patterns. As an application, causal mediation analysis based on the counterfactual framework is performed using data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) for 27,812 individuals in 23 countries, encompassing parental status, respondents' educational attainment, adult cognitive skills, and occupational outcomes. The findings corroborate prior research, demonstrating that education significantly mediates the origin-destination association in all cases. Importantly, adult skills also exert a mediating power net of education, ranging from 4% (Sweden) to 25% (USA) of the total origin effect estimates in conservative models. These results suggest that fostering cognitive skills among the disadvantaged may help mitigate intergenerational inequality, although its magnitude varies across societies. By linking these cross-national differences to fundamental concepts such as meritocracy and credentialism, the study concludes with a preliminary typology of societies from a comparative perspective." The study refers to the period 2011-2023 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2026/4