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Intergenerational mobility in Europe: evidence from ECHP

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Simona Comi ()

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In this paper I provide new evidence on cross-country comparison of intergenerational mobility using the first five waves of the European Community Household Panel focusing on two alternative dimensions of mobility: income and education. I estimate intergeneration earnings elasticity for sons and daughters father pairs and also some synthetic indexes from intergenerational educational transition matrices in 12 European countries. For the first time it can be possible to rank European countries according to their degree of intergenerational income mobility. It turns out that that Italy is the most immobile country in Europe, together with Portugal and Greece when considering sons and with Germany when considering daughters. I find also that fathers behave differently in passing income and education to children accordingly to their sex and find that when a strong link between father and daughter’s income is observed tipically the relation between their level of education is weak, while the reverse can be stated for sons .The paper investigates also how institutional and economic factors can affect mobility and shows that surprisingly, no relation between the income elasticity and earnings returns to human capital emerges that income elasticity seems to be negatively related to public expenditure in tertiary education positively related to the strictness of the employment protection law. Educational mobility across generations seems to be affected by the performance of the education system measured by the proportion of students fall below given benchmarks of educational achievement, it is not affected the percentage of students enrolled in private schools.

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Keywords: Intergenerational; mobility; Europe; ECHP;

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J0 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General
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  5. Schnitzlein, Daniel, 2008. "Verbunden über Generationen: Struktur und Ausmaß der intergenerationalen Einkommensmobilität in Deutschland (Structure and extent of intergenerational income mobility in Germany)," IAB Discussion Paper 200801, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]. [Downloadable!]
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  11. Checchi, Daniele & Fiorio, Carlo V. & Leonardi, Marco, 2008. "Intergenerational Persistence in Educational Attainment in Italy," IZA Discussion Papers 3622, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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