Decline in social mobility: Unfulfilled aspirations among Egypt's educated youth

Arbeitspapier

This paper studies how the gradual suspension of an employment guarantee scheme for secondary and post-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support suggestive evidence in the Middle East of a decline in social mobility among the increasingly well-educated youth. The results further indicate that unequal opportunities are due to difficulties in attaining high-level occupations in the formal private sector for graduates from a lower socio-economic background, and that personal connections may play a decisive role. Thus, aside from credit market imperfections, labor market constraints may be important in explaining low social mobility.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6139

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Economic Development: General
• Thema: intergenerational mobility ; Islamic revival ; schooling ; labor market ; Soziale Mobilität ; Generationenbeziehungen ; Jugendliche ; Bildungsniveau ; Islam ; Ägypten

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Binzel, Christine
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58500
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201112136927
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ