Education and Social Mobility in Europe: Levelling the Playing Field for Europe’s Children and Fuelling its Economy

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The persistence of socioeconomic outcomes across generations acts as a barrier to a society’s ability to exploit its resources efficiently. In order to derive policy measures which aim at accelerating intergenerational mobility, we review the existent body of research on the causes, effects and the measurement of intergenerational mobility. We also present recent empirical works which study intergenerational mobility in Europe, around the Globe, and its relevance for economic growth. We recommend four policy measures to reduce the negative impacts of intergenerational persistence in economic outcomes: universal and high-quality child care and pre-school programs; later school tracking and increased access to vocational training to reduce skill mismatch and facilitate technological development; integration programs for migrants; and simultaneous investment in schooling and later social security programs.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WWWforEurope Working Paper ; No. 80

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; International Migration ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: Academic research ; Ageing ; Demographic change ; European economic policy ; Full employment growth path ; Labour markets ; Migration ; Policy options

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Altzinger, Wilfried ; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús ; Rumplmaier, Bernhard ; Sauer, Petra ; Schneebaum, Alyssa
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): WWWforEurope
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/125735
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