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Relative Intergenerational Mobility: A Normative Framework and Evidence from Indonesia

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  • Olivier Bargain

    (BSE - Bordeaux sciences économiques - UB - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Maria Bue

    (Università degli studi di Trieste = University of Trieste)

  • Flaviana Palmisano

    (UNIROMA - Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" = Sapienza University [Rome])

Abstract

We propose a simple and flexible framework to assess relative intergenerational mobility.The approach defines a dynasty as a parent–child pair, measuring achievementby each individual's rank within their own generational outcome distribution, andmobility by the change in this rank across generations. This measure accommodatesboth continuous outcomes, such as potential earnings, and discrete or ordinal outcomes,such as education levels. It also allows for dominance characterizations (e.g.,the relative progress made by women vs. men) consistent with social preferences overdesirable mobility patterns. We apply the framework to Indonesia using long-paneldata linking parents observed in 1993 to their children in 2014. Results show thata large share of the population escaped illiteracy—an instance of absolute mobilitypossibly driven by major education reforms. However, relative educational mobilitywas regressive, as dynasties from higher socio-economic backgrounds progressedfaster. This pattern limited the overall progressivity of relative earnings mobility.Mobility in both education and potential earnings was markedly more favorable to women.

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  • Olivier Bargain & Maria Bue & Flaviana Palmisano, 2026. "Relative Intergenerational Mobility: A Normative Framework and Evidence from Indonesia," Post-Print hal-05592288, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05592288
    DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9043187/v1
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    JEL classification:

    • J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
    • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics

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