Educational mobility in Canada: results from the 2001 general social survey

被引:4
作者
McIntosh, James [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Concordia Univ, Dept Econ, Montreal, PQ H3G 1M8, Canada
[2] Danish Natl Ctr Social Res, DK-1052 Copenhagen K, Denmark
关键词
Educational mobility; Unobserved heterogeneity; Mixture distributions; Canada; ECONOMICS; MODELS;
D O I
10.1007/s00181-009-0275-9
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This research examines mobility in the Canadian educational system and how it has evolved over the last 50 years of the twentieth century. Mixtures of ordered probability models which control for unobserved heterogeneity are estimated for both male and female respondents for two age groups: those between age 25 and 49 and those aged 50 or older in 2001. The main result is that educational attainments depend significantly less on family background variables for the younger cohorts. This is a qualitatively different result from what Canadian sociologists have found. They argue that there is little mobility in the Canadian educational system which has remained much as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century. The data used in the analysis comes from the 2001 general social survey.
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页码:457 / 470
页数:14
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