Arbeitspapier
Education and Social Mobility in Europe: Levelling the Playing Field for Europe’s Children and Fuelling its Economy
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: WWWforEurope Working Paper ; No. 80
- Classification
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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
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Academic research
Ageing
Demographic change
European economic policy
Full employment growth path
Labour markets
Migration
Policy options
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Altzinger, Wilfried
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús
Rumplmaier, Bernhard
Sauer, Petra
Schneebaum, Alyssa
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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WWWforEurope
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Vienna
- (when)
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2015
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Altzinger, Wilfried
- Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús
- Rumplmaier, Bernhard
- Sauer, Petra
- Schneebaum, Alyssa
- WWWforEurope
Time of origin
- 2015