Intergenerational occupational mobility: evidence from Belarus

This paper studies the intergenerational occupational mobility and the role of gender, education, and social origin in Belarus. The methodology applied consists in analyzing the movements along the occupational scale of children with respect to their parents using transition matrices, mobility rates, the estimation of the multinomial logit model and data from the Generations and Gender Survey conducted in Belarus in 2017. The results indicate that personal and labor characteristics have a significant effect on intergenerational occupational mobility. First, the probability of upward occupational mobility is higher for women and about 27 percentage points higher for people with higher education than for people with primary education. Second, the probability of moving up along the occupational ladder increases on average by about 0.3 percentage points for every additional year of labor experience. Finally, full-time workers are 12 percentage points more likely to experience upward occupational mobility.
Keywords: intergenerational mobility; gender; education; occupation.