Social Mobility in Germany

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We characterize intergenerational social mobility in Germany using census data on the educational attainment of 526,000 children and their parents' earnings. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university and the most important qualification in the German education system. On average, a 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the probability to obtain an A-Level. This parental income gradient has not changed for the birth cohorts from 1980 to 1996, despite a large-scale policy of expanding upper secondary education in Germany. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Place effects, rather than sorting of households into different regions, seem to account for most of these geographical differences. Mobile regions are, among other aspects, characterized by high school quality and enhanced possibilities to obtain an A-Level degree in vocational schools.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper Series ; No. 04

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Politik ; Education and Inequality ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Thema: Intergenerational Mobility ; Educational Attainment ; Local Labor Markets

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dodin, Majed ; Findeisen, Sebastian ; Henkel, Lukas ; Sachs, Dominik ; Schüle, Paul
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality"
• (wo): Konstanz
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240321
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-1wnrtwgp70gm28
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ