Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy

Arbeitspapier

In this study, for the first time, to our knowledge, we use the propensity score matching algorithm to estimate the probability to remain 'stuck in the status-quo ante' across generations in Egypt. We use repeated cross-sectional data relative to a 20-year period from 1998 to 2018 to build transition matrices of intergenerational occupational mobility. The findings of the econometric analysis hint at a low degree of occupational mobility, with children of fathers in the agricultural sector or holding a blue- or white-collar job remaining linked to the profession of their fathers in most cases and experiencing only rarely upward mobility from agricultural to blue- and white-collar jobs.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15003

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices
• Subject: intergenerational occupational mobility ; status quo bias ; propensity score matching ; Egypt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal ; Pastore, Francesco
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/250664
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET