Intergenerational Occupational Persistence across the Worlds of Welfare in the EU
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intergenerational mobility occupational mobility occupational status welfare regimes EU
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This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence in the occupational status across the four EU welfare regimes. Utilizing EU-SILC 2005 microdata through multinomial logit models, the paper brings to the forefront the performance of different social protection systems vis-à-vis intergenerational occupational persistence. The countries of the Liberal welfare regime exhibit the highest persistence and those of the Social-democratic welfare regime the lowest one, while the countries of the Conservative-Corporatist and the South-European welfare cluster place themselves somewhere in between. These findings imply a success-story in intercepting the intergenerational persistence in occupations by the regulatory and redistributive mechanisms of the Social-democratic welfare state.
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Papanastasiou, S., & Papatheodorou, C. (2017). Intergenerational Occupational Persistence across the Worlds of Welfare in the EU. Social Policy, 8, 6–20. https://doi.org/10.12681/sp.14602
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