%0 Report
        %A Binzel, Christine
        %T Decline in Social Mobility: Unfulfilled Aspirations among Egypt's Educated Youth
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6139
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6139
        %X This paper studies how the gradual suspension of an employment guarantee scheme for secondary and post-secondary graduates has affected intergenerational mobility across well-educated cohorts in Egypt. The empirical results support suggestive evidence in the Middle East of a decline in social mobility among the increasingly well-educated youth. The results further indicate that unequal opportunities are due to difficulties in attaining high-level occupations in the formal private sector for graduates from a lower socio-economic background, and that personal connections may play a decisive role. Thus, aside from credit market imperfections, labor market constraints may be important in explaining low social mobility.
        %K intergenerational mobility
%K Islamic revival
%K schooling
%K labor market