Intergenerational Social Mobility and Educational Inequality in South Korea : A Comprehensive Review of Empirical Studies since 2000

정인관,; 최성수,; 황선재,; 최율,

doi:10.18207/criso.2020..127.12

Cited by 8 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For instance, pessimistic expectations among household heads in their 30s on their children's upward social mobility, 51.5 per cent, outweighed optimistic views, 35.9 per cent, in 2013 (Kim, 2014). Despite the pessimistic views on social mobility, empirical evidence reveals a rather different picture, and South Korea has experienced an average level of relative income mobility among OECD countries (OECD, 2018;Chung et al, 2020).…”

Section: Trends Of Social Mobility In South Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The perception of worsening social mobility is no doubt associated with trends in absolute mobility (Kye & Hwang, 2016). The possibility of absolute mobility has fallen due to the changes in the industrial structure allowing the rate of increase in white-collar and professional jobs (Chung et al, 2020). A college degree is less promising as a route to high earnings due to the rapid expansion of higher education.…”

Section: Trends Of Social Mobility In South Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

A Social Ladder or a Glass Floor? The Role of Higher Education in Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea

Lee

2021

High Educ Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Though various measures of mobility rate for colleges, e.g., bottom-to-top mobility rate, status maintenance rate, and middle-class mobility rate, have been introduced, they have rarely been reviewed together to see the whole picture of intergenerational mobility, particularly in non-Western societies. This paper fills this gap and characterises mobility rates for 17 different college tiers in South Korea using the Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey for 37,552 graduates from 2007 to 2010. It documents two main results. First, mobility rates are higher for males than for females in all three measures, indicating colleges in South Korea are less effective as a social ladder for females. Second, many selective colleges are more likely to play a role as a glass floor than a social ladder due to their lower low-income access, and 'selective public' colleges are the engines of upward social mobility for students from the bottom three quintiles. Though people believe education is the single greatest hope to achieve upward social mobility, these findings cast doubt on the idea that college attendance alone can promote social mobility. This paper does not necessarily identify causal relationships that can be manipulated to improve mobility rates; however, it documents various patterns of interest to policymakers.

show abstract

Section: Trends Of Social Mobility In South Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Trends Of Social Mobility In South Koreamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Social Ladder or a Glass Floor? The Role of Higher Education in Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea

Lee

2021

High Educ Policy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Kim, 2017), 0.30‒0.40 (Yang, 2012), and 0.40 (S. Kim, 2017). In a comprehensive review of evidence on Korean IGEs reported since 2000, the most recent scholarly consensus on the “true” rates of Korean IGE is 0.30 or less (Chung et al, 2020). An IGE of 0.30 indicates that four generations (100 years) are required to phase out the disadvantage of children from lower‐income families (Fox et al, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of intergenerational income mobility in South Korea and the United States: Period changes between 1980‒1995 and 1996‒2015

Song

2021

Int J Soc Welfare

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite attention in the literature of intergenerational mobility (IGM) and the welfare state, it remains unclear about how "small" welfare states, South Korea and the United States in particular, play a role in promoting levels of IGM. This article compares levels of IGM using intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income as well as alternative mobility measures during two study periods (1980-1995 and 1996-2015) between Korea and the US. Data come from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study in Korea and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics in the US. The article found no period effects on IGE in both countries; however, the Korean IGE decreased and the US's IGE increased. These results confirm that Korea is more mobile than the US. Implications for the observed between-country differences in IGE levels in relation to sociocultural and institutional contexts of the welfare state are discussed.

show abstract

Stratification and Economic Inequality in South Korea

Kim

2023

A Contemporary Portrait of Life in Korea

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Intergenerational Social Mobility and Educational Inequality in South Korea : A Comprehensive Review of Empirical Studies since 2000

Cited by 8 publications

References 0 publications

A Social Ladder or a Glass Floor? The Role of Higher Education in Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea

A Social Ladder or a Glass Floor? The Role of Higher Education in Intergenerational Social Mobility: Empirical Evidence from South Korea

Comparison of intergenerational income mobility in South Korea and the United States: Period changes between 1980‒1995 and 1996‒2015

Stratification and Economic Inequality in South Korea

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About