Educational mobility across generations of formally and informally employed: evidence from Pakistan
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Article Title | Educational mobility across generations of formally and informally employed: evidence from Pakistan |
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ERA Journal ID | 19986 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Kishwar, Shabana (Author) and Alam, Khorshed (Author) |
Journal Title | International Journal of Educational Development |
Journal Citation | 87, pp. 1-9 |
Article Number | 102505 |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0738-0593 |
1873-4871 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102505 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738059321001589 |
Abstract | Poverty persists across generations through the transmission of informal employment from one generation to the next. Education and earnings are considered important factors that transmit informal employment across generations. Considering education as one of the transmission mechanisms of sectoral employment and poverty, no studies have yet conducted any comparative analysis of educational persistence across generations of formally and informally employed parents. Therefore, the present study estimates the intergenerational persistence of education by considering the nature of parents’ employment through intergenerational elasticity and intergenerational correlation approaches of mobility measurement. Results show that intergenerational persistence is higher at the lower levels of education when the father is informally employed. On the contrary, when the father is formally employed, this persistence is higher at the higher levels of education. This result implies that labour market reforms are essential along with educational reforms to break this intergenerational persistence. |
Keywords | earnings; informality; mobility; opportunities; Pakistan; poverty |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 399999. Other education not elsewhere classified |
380201. Cross-sectional analysis | |
380111. Labour economics | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Pakistan |
School of Business | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6v8z/educational-mobility-across-generations-of-formally-and-informally-employed-evidence-from-pakistan
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