Bottom-half Intergenerational Mobility Among the Coloured Population in South Africa
Date
2023
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Abstract
I examined the intergenerational mobility of education among the Coloured population in South Africa between 1975 and 1990. I used the National Income Dynamics Study to measure intergenerational mobility among Coloured children born to parents at the bottom of the education distribution-this includes parents with an educational attainment lower than grade 10. I found across the whole population; the median rank of education is grade 10 – making grade 10 my middle point. I compared several intergenerational mobility indices with bottom-half mobility and look at the IGE and IGC indices for sons, as well as the summary statistics for the coloured, African, and White populations. I suggested that Coloured daughters born to mothers in the bottom half of the education distribution have experienced a decrease in upward mobility meanwhile upward mobility has increased for Coloured sons. However, I suggested Coloured daughters born to parents with educational attainment lower than grade 10 have a higher chance of increasing their educational attainment compared to Coloured sons. I also compared mobility estimates between Coloured children born in the Western and Northern Cape with Coloured children born elsewhere. I found that Coloured children born in the former have lower upward mobility compared to Coloured children born elsewhere
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A Research Report submitted in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Commerce (Applied Development Economics) in the School of Economics and Finance, University of the Witwatersrand, 2023
Keywords
Bottom-half Intergenerational Mobility, Coloured Population, Education, UCTD
Citation
De Kock, Tryston. (2023). Bottom-half Intergenerational Mobility Among the Coloured Population in South Africa [Master’s dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WireDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/38720