Skill premia and intergenerational education mobility: The French case |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht (URU), Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584CS, The Netherlands;2. Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States;1. Monash University, Centre for Health Economics, Australia;2. University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Australia;1. University of Chicago and NBER, United States |
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| Abstract: | In the case of France, we analyse the changes in the wage value of each education level and the impact of parents’ education and income upon the education attainment of children, sons and daughters. We find a critical decline in the skill premium of the Baccalauréat (‘bac’) in relation to the lowest educational level, and an increase in the skill premia of higher education degrees in relation to the bac, which is however not large enough to erase the decrease in all the skill premia relative to the lowest education. We also find a significant rise in the impact of family backgrounds upon education from 1993 to 2003, i.e., a decrease in intergenerational education mobility, which primarily derives from higher impact of parental incomes. Finally, the gender wage gap is particularly large for the lowest and the highest education degrees, and intergenerational persistence is greater for sons than for daughters. |
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| Keywords: | Family backgrounds Intergenerational education mobility Skill premium |
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