Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Guell, Maia; Pellizzari, Michele; Pica, Giovanni; Mora, Jose V. Rodriguez
• 署名单位: Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of Edinburgh; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Geneva; University of Milan; Alan Turing Institute; University of Edinburgh; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12599
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: F353-F403
• 关键词: intergenerational mobility; sweden; education; earnings

摘要

We construct comparable measures of intergenerational mobility (IM) for 103 Italian provinces using the methodology of Guell etal. (2007, 2015a) and explore their correlation with a variety of social and economic outcomes. We find that higher IM is positively associated with economic activity, education and social capital and negatively correlated with inequality. Moreover, there is no clear pattern of correlation with other socio-political variables. These results are qualitatively similar to Chetty etal. (2014), with the important difference that Italy is a highly centralised state where institutions and policies are de jure' the same in all provinces. This suggests that something beyond institutional and policy differences also shapes intergenerational mobility.