{"id":18968,"date":"2025-09-05T14:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.economicas.uba.ar\/iiep\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=18968"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T19:17:28","slug":"intergenerational-occupational-transmission-as-a-determinant-of-social-mobility","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/economicas.uba.ar\/iiep\/eventos\/intergenerational-occupational-transmission-as-a-determinant-of-social-mobility\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminario de investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP | Intergenerational occupational transmission as a determinant of social mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seminario de investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intergenerational occupational transmission as a determinant of social mobility<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expositor | <strong>Martin Trombetta<\/strong> IIEP UBA-CONICET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abstract<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Social mobility is an interdisciplinary field that studies the degree to which an individual\u2019s wellbeing is determined by that of the household she grew up in. While sociologists have extensively analyzed the link between parents and children\u2019s occupations, understood as indicators of social class, economists have chosen to focus on other socioeconomic attributes such as education or income. This work bridges the gap between these two branches of the literature by characterizing the transmission of occupational attributes from parents to children in the methodological framework provided by modern economic analysis on intergenerational mobility. I leverage two Argentine retrospective surveys to provide estimates of the effects of general attributes of the occupations of parents on those of their offspring. The empirical strategy features traditional ordinary least squares regressions as well as an instrumental variables approach and unconditional quantile regressions. My results indicate that job skill level and occupational socioeconomic status are strongly transmitted from parents to children, while other attributes such as rank, establishment size and industry show strong intergenerational correlation that weakens once the instrumental variable is incorporated. Quantile regressions suggest that intergenerational occupational persistence is driven by occupations with the highest socioeconomic status. Overall, these results imply sizable transmission of occupational attributes, which acts as a key determinant of the social mobility level and severely limits equality of opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sobre el expositor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Es Doctor en Econom\u00eda por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Investigador Asistente del CONICET e Investigador Asociado del IIEP-UBA. Se desempe\u00f1a como Profesor Adjunto en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) y ha dictado cursos de grado y posgrado en diversas universidades. Sus \u00e1reas de trabajo abarcan econometr\u00eda aplicada, desigualdad de ingresos, brechas de g\u00e9nero y movilidad social.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lugar FCE-UBA Aula Olivera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminario de investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP Intergenerational occupational transmission as a determinant of social mobility Expositor | Martin Trombetta IIEP UBA-CONICET &nbsp; Abstract Social mobility is an interdisciplinary field that studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[224,74],"class_list":["post-18968","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-destacada","tribe_events_cat-seminario-iiep","cat_destacada","cat_seminario-iiep"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seminario de investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP | Intergenerational occupational transmission as a determinant of social mobility - IIEP UBA-CONICET<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/economicas.uba.ar\/iiep\/eventos\/intergenerational-occupational-transmission-as-a-determinant-of-social-mobility\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seminario de investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP | Intergenerational occupational transmission as a determinant of social mobility - IIEP UBA-CONICET\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seminario de investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP Intergenerational occupational transmission as a determinant of social mobility Expositor | Martin Trombetta IIEP UBA-CONICET &nbsp; 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