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| Title: | | Decline in social mobility: Unfulfilled aspirations among Egypt's educated youth  |
| Authors: | | Binzel, Christine |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6139 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | intergenerational mobility Islamic revival schooling labor market |
| JEL: | | J62 J24 O10 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201112136927 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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