{"id":529,"date":"2018-01-11T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/?p=529"},"modified":"2018-03-07T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:35:09","slug":"is-there-hope-without-parental-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/2018\/01\/11\/is-there-hope-without-parental-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Is There Hope without Parental Support?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Study on Social Mobility across Generations and Inequality of Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Choi, Pil Sun &amp; In Sik Min. 2015. <em>The Journal of Social Science<\/em> 22(3): 31-56.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This paper investigates the social mobility across generations in Korea using Korea Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) 1st\uff5e10th waves. We provide a descriptive analysis that how parents\u2019 education and income levels affect their offspring\u2019s educational achievement, and moreover labor market performance after graduation. With retrospective survey data, existing studies have examined the effect of parental characteristics on their children\u2019s education or occupation. By contrast, KEEP data can complement the shortcomings of the retrospective survey data because the data directly obtain the household characteristics when the respondent was a middle or high school student. Main empirical findings are as follows: First, as the higher parental education or income level, the higher the proportion of children going on to a four-year college. Second, educational achievement as measured by CSAT (College Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores positively reflect parents\u2019 social class. Third, offspring\u2019s labor market performance is to some extent influenced by parents\u2019 characteristics. A son\u2019s wage belonging to father with college diploma is 20% higher than alternative parents groups with high school graduates or less. Fourth, regarding the relationship between father\u2019s income and offspring\u2019s wage, a son\u2019s wage is 19% greater when this worker belongs to the fifth quartile of household income compared to the case, belonging to the first quartile. As a result of estimating ex-ante inequality of opportunity, empirical analysis tells that regardless of an individual\u2019s efforts, about 9.7% of all heterogeneity in his educational attainment is due to parents\u2019 circumstances. We conclude that the succession pattern of parents\u2019 education and income levels to their offspring is clearly observed in terms of college admission and academic achievement. Our society will face that inter-generational social mobility is inevitably limited when education disparity causes to widen wage gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Study on Social Mobility across Generations and Inequality of Opportunity Choi, Pil Sun &amp; In Sik Min. 2015. The Journal of Social Science 22(3): 31-56. This paper investigates the social mobility across generations in Korea using Korea Education and Employment Panel (KEEP) 1st\uff5e10th waves. We provide a descriptive analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[21,17,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inequality.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}