Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229230 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2020/6
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Empirical studies in developing countries tend to find higher levels of socioeconomic persistence across generations compared with those of high-income economies. However, there have been relatively few advances in the identification of the drivers of such higher levels of intergenerational persistence. By focusing on relevant evidence from developing and emerging economies, this paper points to some of the potential drivers of mobility that are either outside those typically considered in high-income countries or likely to be of greater relevance in the developing world. The paper builds on the standard model of intergenerational mobility to discuss the appropriateness of some of its assumptions in a developing-country context. It will then advance some suggestions for future theoretical and empirical investigations of social mobility in the Global South.
Subjects: 
Entwicklungsländer
Developing countries
Arbeitsmarkt
Labour market
JEL: 
D63
J62
O15
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-763-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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