Historical evolution of intergenerational class mobility and educational effects in urban Argentina over periods: 1960-2017

FACHELLI, SANDRA; DALLE, PABLO; JORRAT, RAÚL; RIVEIRO, MANUEL

Londres

Congreso; ISA RC28 Spring Meeting; 2022

International Sociological Association (ISA)

Our paper focuses on a first historical approach to the analysis of time variations in intergenerational class mobility and the role of education over a group of survey years in urban Argentina, specifically in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), from 1960 to 2017. Intergenerational social mobility will be analyzed according to positions in the class structure (EGP class scheme), taking into account the interviewees’ class position and that of their fathers, using log-linear models and counterfactual analysis when it applies. Our findings observed a social fluidity process for men but not for women. The counterfactual analysis showed that most of social fluidity for men is due to a reduction in direct class origin-class destination effect. No evidence of educational expansion effect was found, showing differences with its important role that has been shown in international results.It must be noted that it is the first time that a research can be carried out based on a long-term perspective of social mobility, with almost all data available for a 60-years period (near 100 years of labor market insertion) which favored the possibility of considering counterfactual models in urban Argentina (AMBA).