Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Equality of Opportunity in South Africa

Piraino, Patrizio

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.027

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“…2005 or 2013) and/or the earnings level/quantile considered, suggesting moderate to high levels of earnings stickiness in Ethiopia, particularly for daughters. These findings are broadly consistent with some of the evidence in the literature relating to emerging economies, the closest available comparator for this study, where estimated elasticities stand at 0.60 for South Africa and Brazil, 0.63 for China and 0.57-0.74 for Chile (see Dunn, 2007;Ferreira & Veloso, 2006;Gong, Leigh & Meng, 2012;Nunez & Miranda, 2010;Piraino, 2015). In comparison, estimated elasticities are generally found to be the lowest (0.10-0.15) for the more egalitarian Nordic welfare state economies such as Denmark, Finland and Norway and moderately high (about 0.50) for advanced market economies such as the USA and the UK (see, for example, Bjorklund & Jantti, 1997Solon, 2002;Bratsberg et al, 2007).…”

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Intergenerational Mobility in Socio‐economic Status in Ethiopia

Haile

2018

J of Intl Development

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Using data from two comprehensive national Labour Force Surveys and monetary and non‐monetary outcomes, we examine the extent of intergenerational mobility in Ethiopia. Results from ordinary least squares and quantile regression suggest moderate to high levels of earnings persistence. Generalised ordered logit‐based results suggest significant mobility educationally, which may be linked to the significant widening of educational opportunities over the last two decades, but hardly any evidence of mobility occupationally. Sons are found to be more mobile than daughters in all cases. Public policy may have to foster the equality of opportunities generally and along gender lines in order to enhance mobility. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Intergenerational Mobility In Earningssupporting

confidence: 91%

“…Importantly, this compounds the measurement error problems for mothers' income. 4 Some of the exceptions to this arePiraino (2015),Brunori et al (2013) andThomas (1996) on South Africa;…”

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Intergenerational Mobility in Socio‐economic Status in Ethiopia

Haile

2018

J of Intl Development

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“…The extension of the "social wage" has lowered the incidence of extreme poverty, although it has not altered the underlying structure or dynamics of income and wealth. The gulf in occupations and earnings between racial groups remains as wide as ever, including from one generation to the next (Keswell, Girdwood, & Leibbrandt, 2013;Piraino, 2015).…”

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Urban “slums” and social mobility

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Visagie

2018

Development Policy Review

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Informal urban settlements determine the wellbeing of a large section of global humanity. Yet there has been little research on their role in facilitating social mobility. In theory such settlements may foster human progress by linking rural–urban migrants to the services, contacts and livelihoods concentrated in cities. The article uses longitudinal data for South Africa to explore the magnitude of social progression among people living within informal settlements compared with rural areas and formal urban areas. It finds that there may be some advantage from living in an informal settlement compared with a rural area, but the effect is not strong. The impact may be larger in the more prosperous Gauteng city‐region than in other urban regions.

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“…Vietnam is more mobile than other developing countries such as Brazil (Dunn 2007), and South Africa (Hertz 2001, Piraino 2015.…”

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“…Inoue and Solon (2010) show that in the two-sample environment, TS2SLS is asymptotically more efficient than TSIV. Numerous studies have used TS2SLS to investigate intergenerational mobility such as Fortin and Lefebvre (1998) for Canada, Lefranc and Trannoy (2005) for France, Dunn (2007) for Brazil, Gong et al (2012) for urban China, Piraino (2015) for South Africa, Lefranc et al (2014) for Japan, or Cervini-Plá (2014) for Spain.…”

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