Does Intra-generational Mobility Equalize Inter-generational Mobility ?

The Role of Social Institutions in Inter-Generational Mobility

Increasing inter-generational social mobility: is educational expansion the answer?

Reforms which increase the stock of education in a society have long been held by policy-makers as key to improving rates of intergenerational social mobility. Yet, despite the intuitive plausibility of this idea, the empirical evidence in support of an effect of educational expansion on social fluidity is both indirect and weak. In this paper we use the raising of the minimum school leaving ag...

Beating the Odds (1): Inter-generational Social Mobility from a Human Capital Perspective

The objective of this paper is to use a human capital measure as the positional indicator in an investigation of trends in equality of intergenerational life chances. The BHPS retrospective work and employment history files provide a continuous account of respondents’ occupational positions throughout their adult lives, and also records of their parents employment circumstances (if any) when th...

Intra - Generational Social Class Mobility in Hungary Between 1992 and 2007 — the Role of Self - Confidence *

This paper analyses the intra-generational social class mobility in Hungary between 1992 and 2007 using Hungarian panel data. Social class position is used as an occupation based typology corrected with a social status index (containing income, wealth and housing dimension). Self-confidence reflected respondents’ problem solving skills, determination, efficacy and optimism. Mobilizing the gain ...

Digital and Inter-Generational Divide

Digital divide can be considered a macro economical index representing the social differences and the separation between the North and the South of the world. Since the first definition of digital divide, it has been shown that it is also a great and unrecognized problem in the developed countries, especially in the field of education. “Digital disconnection” is a key problem for School and Uni...