Multigenerational education mobility in Europe: Exploring the mechanism

IF 2.2 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Labour Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102674

Miroslava Federičová, Filip Pertold

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Abstract

We analyze the transmission process of education in a three-generation setting. We employ mediation analyses to quantify the mediating factors (and their mutual interactions) that may potentially explain the relationship between the educational attainment of grandparents and grandchildren. Using this approach, we analyze how assumptions about interactions between generations are important for estimating persistence across generations. In our preferred specification, allowing for indirect effects, the socioeconomic status of grandparents explains about one-third-of the transmission of education between grandparents and grandchildren, and almost sixty percent is explained by the education of parents. Focusing on cross-country and within-country differences across time, we show possible influences of social and institutional settings on multigenerational transmission. We specifically examine a unique transition process from centrally planned to market economy and provide evidence for changes in multigenerational persistence in education within countries over time. In line with current literature, our results point to the "long memory" of education inequalities.

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欧洲的多代教育流动：机制探讨

我们以三代为背景来分析教育的传递过程。我们采用中介分析来量化中介因素（及其相互作用），这些因素可能潜在地解释祖父母和孙子女的受教育程度之间的关系。使用这种方法，我们分析了代之间相互作用的假设对于估计代之间的持久性是如何重要的。在我们首选的规范中，考虑到间接影响，祖父母的社会经济地位解释了祖父母和孙子之间教育传递的三分之一，几乎60%是由父母的教育解释的。我们关注跨时间的跨国和国内差异，展示了社会和制度环境对多代传人的可能影响。我们特别研究了从中央计划经济到市场经济的独特过渡过程，并提供了国家内多代人教育持续性变化的证据。与目前的文献一致，我们的研究结果指出了教育不平等的“长期记忆”。

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Labour Economics ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

8.30%

发文量

142

期刊介绍： Labour Economics is devoted to publishing research in the field of labour economics both on the microeconomic and on the macroeconomic level, in a balanced mix of theory, empirical testing and policy applications. It gives due recognition to analysis and explanation of institutional arrangements of national labour markets and the impact of these institutions on labour market outcomes.