Social mobility and demand for redistribution in Europe: a comparative analysis

Castillo, Antonio M. Jaime; Marqués-Perales, Ildefonso

doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12363

Cited by 29 publications

(22 citation statements)

References 94 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This expectation is also closely aligned with studies that addressed the political implications of social mobility from an inter-generational perspective (see e.g. De Graaf et al, 1995;Jaime-Castillo & Marqués-Perales, 2018;Weakliem, 1992).…”

Section: The Impact Of Class Mobility In Post-industrial Societiessupporting

confidence: 78%

Changing classes, changing preferences: how social class mobility affects economic preferences

Ares

2019

West European Politics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

While many studies have identified an association between social class and economic preferences, we know little about the implications of changes in class location for these preferences. This paper assesses how social class and intra-generational class mobility affect economic preferences drawing on longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey. In doing so, the paper adopts a postindustrial perspective that considers horizontal and vertical class divisions. Even when time-invariant characteristics of individuals are kept constant (through fixed-effects estimation), we find that both vertical and horizontal class location explain economic preferences. Thus, these estimations suggest that social class molds preferences, even when accounting for factors that can lead to selection into classes. Moreover, people who change classes hold different economic preferences than their peers in the class of origin, but do not completely assimilate into their class of destination. This implies that growing intra-generational class mobility could undermine the class basis of political conflict.

show abstract

Section: The Impact Of Class Mobility In Post-industrial Societiessupporting

confidence: 78%

Changing classes, changing preferences: how social class mobility affects economic preferences

Ares

2019

West European Politics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…While Tolsma et al (2009) show that downward mobility does not influence attitudes towards immigrants in the Netherlands, Daenekindt et al (2018) show that the downwardly mobile in the Dutch society 'blame the system' for their social decline. There are other studies that have focused on social class, mobility, and broader political attitudes but findings regarding the role played by intergenerational loss are mixed (Breen, 2001;De Graaf et al, 1995;Jaime-Castillo and Marqués-Perales, 2019;Paterson, 2008). Several studies have looked at whether downward social mobility is associated with lower well-being or life satisfaction, however, there is no consensus on this question either (Becker and Birkelbach, 2018;Hadjar and Samuel, 2015;Kaiser and Trinh, 2019;Präg and Richards, 2019;Zhao et al, 2017).…”

Section: Intergenerational Loss and Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Micro-mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does downward social mobility make people more hostile towards immigrants?

Paškov

Präg

Richards

2021

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study explores the relationships between intergenerational social class mobility and attitudes towards immigration. We interpret a failure to keep up with parental social class (i.e. downward mobility) as an indicator that individual's status achievements lag behind expectations and contribute to subjective feelings of loss and decline. An innovative feature of this study is that we investigate both whether individual's mobility experience-micro-level-and also whether opportunity structuresmobility on a macro level-are linked with attitudes towards immigration. In contexts with high downward-mobility, opportunities for moving up are limited and hence perceived economic decline and loss might lead to more hostility towards immigrants. We use the European Social Survey data (2002-10) and conduct analyses on 30 countries using diagonal reference models that allow the effects of individual mobility trajectory to be disentangled from origin status and destination status. Our results show that the working classes hold stronger anti-immigration attitudes and parental class continues to exert an effect on attitudes in adulthood even after accounting for individual's own social class position. Being downwardly mobile from parental class does not appear to be associated with more hostility towards immigrants, except in a few European countries like Italy, Poland, and Greece. Our random-effects meta-regression models show, however, that people living in contexts of high downward mobility are more hostile towards immigrants compared to people in contexts with high upward mobility.

show abstract

“…parental characteristics during childhood, are associated with their status in adulthood. There is expending scholarship which investigates the links between individuals’ objective experience of intergenerational mobility and various outcomes such as redistribution preferences (Jaime-Castillo and Marqués-Perales, 2019), life satisfaction (Chan, 2018), and health (Präg and Richards, 2019). Nonetheless, since the theorised pathways of the consequences of intergenerational mobility almost exclusively refer to various psycho-social mechanisms (Gugushvili, Zhao, et al, 2019), it is of utmost importance to consider not only the implications of objective intergenerational mobility, but also its reflection in the minds of individuals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile?

Gugushvili

2020

Acta Sociologica

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study explores individual and contextual explanations of why some people perceive themselves as being mobile and others do not. While subjective social position in recent decades has become an important topic of sociological enquiry, only a handful of studies explicitly investigate the nature of subjective perception of intergenerational mobility. When assessing their performance in comparison to their parents, individuals are likely to consider many other aspects of their lives than the attainment of socio-economic position. For empirical analysis, I operationalise an objective indicator of intergenerational mobility, often assumed to be the central explanation of perceptions of mobility, by means of intergenerational educational trajectories. In addition to exploring individual-level explanations, I use multilevel mixed-effects Poisson regression models to test how contextual environment is associated with perceived intergenerational mobility across 35 societies in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. Results indicate that an objective measure of intergenerational mobility and other individual-level factors are important explanations of subjective intergenerational mobility. Further, the difference in economic development between individuals’ birth years and the year of interview is the most salient contextual factor explaining perceived intergenerational mobility, while contemporary economic development and short-term economic growth also reduce the likelihood of perceived downward mobility. The findings of this study contribute to sociological literature by highlighting the importance of contextual environment and factors beyond socio-economic characteristics for individuals’ perception of intergenerational mobility.

show abstract

Social mobility and demand for redistribution in Europe: a comparative analysis

Cited by 29 publications

References 94 publications

Changing classes, changing preferences: how social class mobility affects economic preferences

Changing classes, changing preferences: how social class mobility affects economic preferences

Does downward social mobility make people more hostile towards immigrants?

Why do people perceive themselves as being downwardly or upwardly mobile?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About