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Assessing the Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Countries Based on ESS Data: 2002–2016

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The present paper examines the impact of the immediate educational family environment on individuals’ educational achievements, focusing on the comparison of the effectiveness of the distinct European social protection systems. To achieve this, primary data are drawn from Rounds 1–8 of the European Social Survey for 24 countries and the upward mobility index, as well as the Bartholomew and Prais-Shorrocks mobility indices are calculated. Key findings of the paper are the high intergenerational educational mobility of the social-democratic welfare states and the extremely low mobility of the Southern-European welfare regimes.

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  1. Department of Social Policy, School of Political Sciences, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece

    Maria Symeonaki & Paraskevi Tsinaslanidou

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Symeonaki, M., Tsinaslanidou, P. (2022). Assessing the Intergenerational Educational Mobility in European Countries Based on ESS Data: 2002–2016. In: Skiadas, C.H., Skiadas, C. (eds) Quantitative Methods in Demography. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93005-9_23

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