Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile

This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticity’s for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of about...

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Autores principales: Núñez,Javier, Miranda,Leslie
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía 2011
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-528620110001000082011-07-25Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban ChileNúñez,JavierMiranda,Leslie Intergenerational mobility Schooling Mobility patterns This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticity’s for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of about 0.6-0.7, but still stands as fairly high in comparison with the comparable international evidence. We also find that intergenerational educational mobility is lower for the younger cohorts, which however does not necessarily imply an increase of intergenerational educational mobility in the last decades, as life-cycle effects may be at work. Finally, we find evidence of a higher degree of intergenerational persistence of income at the two extremes of the income distribution, which is more accentuated at the top centiles of the distribution. We suggest that this may mirror the unusually high concentration of income at the top of the income distribution in Chile, a hypothesis that requires further research.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Chile. Departamento de EconomíaEstudios de economía v.38 n.1 20112011-06-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-52862011000100008en10.4067/S0718-52862011000100008
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language English
topic Intergenerational mobility
Schooling
Mobility patterns
spellingShingle Intergenerational mobility
Schooling
Mobility patterns
Núñez,Javier
Miranda,Leslie
Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile
description This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticity’s for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of about 0.6-0.7, but still stands as fairly high in comparison with the comparable international evidence. We also find that intergenerational educational mobility is lower for the younger cohorts, which however does not necessarily imply an increase of intergenerational educational mobility in the last decades, as life-cycle effects may be at work. Finally, we find evidence of a higher degree of intergenerational persistence of income at the two extremes of the income distribution, which is more accentuated at the top centiles of the distribution. We suggest that this may mirror the unusually high concentration of income at the top of the income distribution in Chile, a hypothesis that requires further research.
author Núñez,Javier
Miranda,Leslie
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Miranda,Leslie
author_sort Núñez,Javier
title Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile
title_short Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile
title_full Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile
title_fullStr Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile
title_full_unstemmed Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile
title_sort intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban chile
publisher Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía
publishDate 2011
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