%0 Report
        %A Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal
%A Pastore, Francesco
        %T Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15003
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15003
        %X In this study, for the first time, to our knowledge, we use the propensity score matching algorithm to estimate the probability to remain 'stuck in the status-quo ante' across generations in Egypt. We use repeated cross-sectional data relative to a 20-year period from 1998 to 2018 to build transition matrices of intergenerational occupational mobility. The findings of the econometric analysis hint at a low degree of occupational mobility, with children of fathers in the agricultural sector or holding a blue- or white-collar job remaining linked to the profession of their fathers in most cases and experiencing only rarely upward mobility from agricultural to blue- and white-collar jobs.
        %K intergenerational occupational mobility
%K status quo bias
%K propensity score matching
%K Egypt