Arbeitspapier

Social mobility and economic development

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of cohorts to the economy in each year, we estimate the impact of changes in mobility on regional economic indicators, such as income per capita, poverty, child mortality, and luminosity. Our findings show that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust effect on the development of Latin American regions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 21-087

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Education and Inequality
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Thema
Intergenerational Mobility
Equality of Opportunity
Development
Growth
Latin America

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Neidhöfer, Guido
Ciaschi, Matías
Gasparini, Leonardo
Serrano, Joaquín
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:21 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Neidhöfer, Guido
  • Ciaschi, Matías
  • Gasparini, Leonardo
  • Serrano, Joaquín
  • ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung

Entstanden

  • 2021

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