The Italian Mobility Regime: 1985–97

Pisati, Maurizio; Schizzerotto, Antonio

doi:10.1093/0199258457.003.0006

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“…Because the ILFI is based on a complex sample design, the calculation of the uncertainty surrounding the estimates may be distorted. However, previous tests (Bernardi and Pisati 2002;Pisati and Schizzerotto 2004) have shown that the design effect tends to be fairly small (ranging in most cases from 0.8 to 1.2); therefore we decided not to incorporate sample design into the analysis (Table 1).…”

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Participation, performance and inequality in Italian higher education in the 20th century

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Trivellato

2008

High Educ

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Using data from the five waves of the Italian Longitudinal Household Survey, this paper examines the dynamics of Italian higher education in the twentieth century. The main goals are to study changes in participation in higher education (enrolment, transition, and graduation rates), in performance (drop out and delayed graduation rates, average delay duration), and how these have changed in different social classes. The main results are as follows. Enrolment growth has not been followed by a proportional increase in graduation rates. The drop out rate, the number of delayed graduations and the average delay duration were already high before the 1969 reform, and subsequently increased over time. Delayed graduations increased among students from both upper-middle and lowermiddle classes, whereas the drop out rate rose only among the latter, and stayed steady for the former. As a whole, absolute inequalities persisted over time, with any slight reduction that took place resulting from declining performance of the upper classes, and not from an improvement of the lower classes.

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Participation, performance and inequality in Italian higher education in the 20th century

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2008

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“…However, in France, Hungary, Poland and Sweden all change occurred between the 1970s and 1980s, and stability has prevailed since then (Breen and Luijkx 2004b:54). Changes in Ireland and Italy are quite minor (Layte and Whelan 2004;Pisati and Schizzerotto 2004), and only the Netherlands displays a sustained increase in mobility over the entire period considered (Ganzeboom and Luijkx 2004). Mobility has also been found to 426--AMERICAN S SOCIOLOGICAL R REVIEW increase over time in the United States between the early 1970s and the mid 1980s (Hout 1988).…”

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Unequal But Fluid: Social Mobility in Chile in Comparative Perspective

Torche

2005

Am Sociol Rev

218

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A major finding in comparative mobility research is the high similarity across countries and the lack of association between mobility and other national attributes, with one exception: higher inequality seems to be associated with lower mobility. Evidence for the mobility-inequality link is, however, inconclusive, largely because most mobility studies have been conducted in advanced countries with relatively similar levels of inequality. This article introduces Chile to the comparative project. As the 10th most unequal country in the world, Chile is an adjudicative case. If high inequality results in lower mobility, Chile should be significantly more rigid than its industrialized peers. This hypothesis is disproved by the analysis. Despite vast economic inequality, Chile is as fluid, if not more so, than the much more equal industrialized nations. Furthermore, there is no evidence of a decline in mobility as the result of the increase in inequality during the market-oriented transformation of the country in the 1970s and 1980s. Study of the specific mobility flows in Chile indicates a significant barrier to long-range downward mobility from the elite (signaling high “elite closure”), but very low barriers across nonelite classes. This particular mobility regime is explained by the pattern, not the level, of Chilean inequality-high concentration in the top income decile, but significantly less inequality across the rest of the class structure. The high Chilean mobility is, however, largely inconsequential, because it takes place among classes that share similar positions in the social hierarchy of resources and rewards. The article concludes by redefining the link between inequality and mobility.

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“…While for the former the penalization is due to their higher probability of remaining in the agricultural class (results not shown), the limited probability of career mobility of the latter group is the consequence of the entrapment of late movers in the unskilled working class, as shown by previous analyses. The structure of career mobility in Italy is rigid, and blue‐collar workers, especially when unskilled, encounter strong barriers to their upward movement into any other classes (Panichella, ; Pisati & Schizzerotto, ). Hence, a late migration, which occurs after a period of inactivity in the South, produces disadvantages that also persist in the medium‐long run, making the process of integration difficult.…”

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Internal Migration Trajectories, Occupational Achievement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Italy. A Life Course Perspective

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Panichella

2019

Population Space and Place

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This work analyses the interrelation among migration, student career, job experiences and family formation. It focuses on Italian South-to-North internal migration. Empirical analyses first describe the life patterns experienced by internal migrants, and then study the selection into different migration trajectories, as well as their association with different occupational achievements and social mobility pathways. The analyses are based on longitudinal data from IHLS and use Sequence Analysis and Logit Models. Results show that different migration trajectories are characterised by a marked selectivity of movers, and that they have different, even opposite, association with individual life chances. Some trajectories create social closure because they 'reproduce' the southern upper classes in the North. Other types are more widespread among the lower classes, but they do not guarantee better opportunities of social mobility. Finally, there are forms of mobility that represent valid routes of upward mobility for the middle and lower classes.

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The Italian Mobility Regime: 1985–97

Cited by 17 publications

References 119 publications

Participation, performance and inequality in Italian higher education in the 20th century

Participation, performance and inequality in Italian higher education in the 20th century

Unequal But Fluid: Social Mobility in Chile in Comparative Perspective

Internal Migration Trajectories, Occupational Achievement and Social Mobility in Contemporary Italy. A Life Course Perspective

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