Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250664 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15003
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this study, for the first time, to our knowledge, we use the propensity score matching algorithm to estimate the probability to remain 'stuck in the status-quo ante' across generations in Egypt. We use repeated cross-sectional data relative to a 20-year period from 1998 to 2018 to build transition matrices of intergenerational occupational mobility. The findings of the econometric analysis hint at a low degree of occupational mobility, with children of fathers in the agricultural sector or holding a blue- or white-collar job remaining linked to the profession of their fathers in most cases and experiencing only rarely upward mobility from agricultural to blue- and white-collar jobs.
Subjects: 
intergenerational occupational mobility
status quo bias
propensity score matching
Egypt
JEL: 
C35
D64
J24
J62
L16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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