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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe: Findings from the European Social Survey

In: Quantitative Methods and Data Analysis in Applied Demography - Volume 2

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  • Glykeria Stamatopoulou

    (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Social Policy)

  • Maria Symeonaki

    (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Department of Social Policy)

Abstract

The present study displays patterns of intergenerational educational mobility in Europe using data drawn from the latest round of the European Social Survey (ESS) (European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure (ESS ERIC) (2022). ESS10 - integrated file, edition 2.1 [Data set]. Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.18712/ess10 ) implemented during 2022. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic at Round 10, a total of 9 countries switched to a self-completion (web and paper) approach, while 22 countries used ESS’s usual face-to-face fieldwork approach. Our motivation stems from the fact that although social justice is theoretically promoted in the prevailing system of economic and social organization, studies on social mobility prove the difficulties of the lower working classes to move upward in the social ladder. Using raw data drawn from the ESS survey we investigate the relationship between the individual’s and the parents’ probability distributions and quantify the transitions of individuals between educational categories. Our analysis is based on the construction of the respective Markov transition probability matrices and the estimation of mobility indices, i.e., absolute, and relative mobility rates.

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  • Glykeria Stamatopoulou & Maria Symeonaki, 2025. "Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe: Findings from the European Social Survey," The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, in: Christos H. Skiadas & Charilaos Skiadas (ed.), Quantitative Methods and Data Analysis in Applied Demography - Volume 2, chapter 0, pages 239-252, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-3-031-82279-7_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82279-7_19
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