TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal
AU  - Pastore, Francesco
        TI  - Getting Stuck in the Status Quo Ante: Evidence from the Egyptian Economy
        PY  - 2022/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15003
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15003
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - intergenerational occupational mobility
KW  - status quo bias
KW  - propensity score matching
KW  - Egypt
        ER  -