Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa

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dc.creatorKeswell, Malcolm
dc.creatorGirdwood, Sarah
dc.creatorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.date2013-02-28T13:39:52Z
dc.date2013-02-28T13:39:52Z
dc.date2011
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:05:11Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:05:11Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionWe analyse the role of educational opportunity in shaping inequality in the distribution of occupations in the long-run. We start by modelling the probability that a child occupies the same or a different rung on the occupational ladder as her parents controlling for both the educational attainment of the child, as well as the level of educational opportunity of the child. These conditional probabilities are then used to construct separate transition matrices by level of educational opportunity, race and gender, which in turn are used to the compute the steady-state distribution of occupations. Finally, we use the timing of political events in the history of the struggle to end Apartheid to devise an identification strategy that permits a causal interpretation of the role of educational opportunity. We find evidence that educational opportunity has a strong conditioning effect on the distribution of occupations in steady state. In particular, African female children who inherit the same level of educational opportunity as their parents are 9% more likely to be in the bottom of the occupation distribution in steady-state, than the observed rate for the population at large, whereas they would face a 4% lower probability if they were exposed to better educational opportunities.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/166
dc.identifier.ris TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Education KW - Inequality KW - Occupation LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa TI - Educational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/166 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/166
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSouthern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectEducation
dc.subjectInequality
dc.subjectOccupation
dc.titleEducational inheritance and the distribution of occupations: Evidence from South Africa
dc.typeReport
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceSALDRU Reporten_ZA
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