IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/elt/journl/v86y2019i342p265-305.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Evidencia sobre la movilidad intergeneracional de ingresos laborales para un país en desarrollo: el caso de Uruguay

Author

Listed:
  • Araya, Federico

    (Universidad de la República)

Abstract

Background: The question regarding whether the performance of children depends on the results obtained by their parents has become an important object of study for the economic science in recent years (Fields y Ok, 1999; Jäntti y Jenkins, 2013). This paper aims to provide original evidence about intergenerational social mobility (ISM) measured through earnings in Uruguay. Methodology: The intergenerational elasticity on earnings (IGE) and the intergen-erational rank association (IRA) are estimated with two sample two step least square (2S2SLS). This estimator is usually used in those countries that do not have longitudinal information. In addition, with the application of transition matrices and quantile regression approach, nonlinearities in ism are studied. Results: The findings locate Uruguay within the group of Latin American countries with high ISM, measured through earnings, along with Argentina and Chile. However, this level is low in comparison with the developed European countries, particularly the Scandinavian. In addition, the lowest levels of ISM are found in the tail of the distribution. Conclusions: Results suggest that people who are born in low-income households have greater difficulties in achieving upward ISM. On the other hand, people who are born in high-income households have a low probability of suffering downward ISM.

Suggested Citation

  • Araya, Federico, 2019. "Evidencia sobre la movilidad intergeneracional de ingresos laborales para un país en desarrollo: el caso de Uruguay," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 86(342), pages 265-305, abril-jun.
    • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:86:y:2019:i:342:p:265-305
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v86i342.722
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.eltrimestreeconomico.com.mx/index.php/te/article/view/722
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v86i342.722?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Martín Leites & Xavier Ramos & Cecilia Rodríguez & Vilá Joan, 2022. "Intergenerational mobility along the income distribution: estimates using administrative data for a developing country," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 22-05, Instituto de Economía - IECON.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    intergenerational social mobility; earnings; Uruguay;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:86:y:2019:i:342:p:265-305. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Nuria Pliego Vinageras (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.