Social mobility in Germany

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; Sachs, Dominik; Schuele, Paul
• 署名单位: University of Mannheim; University of Konstanz; University of Konstanz; European Central Bank; University of St Gallen; University of Munich
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105074
• 发表日期: 2024
• 关键词: intergenerational mobility; educational attainment; local labor markets

摘要

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Motivated by Germany's tracking system in secondary education, our measure of opportunity is the A -Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in parental income rank is associated with a 5.2 percentage point increase in the A -Level share. This gradient remained unchanged for the birth cohorts 1980-1996, despite a large-scale expansion of upper secondary education. At the regional level, there exists substantial variation in mobility estimates. Local characteristics, rather than sorting patterns, account for most of these differences.