Do Economic and Political Changes Matter? Intergenarational Occupational Mobility in Spain

Abstract

Our article studies the evolution of social mobility in Spain and its relationship with profound political, social, and economic transformation. To that end, we investigate the transmission processes of labor occupations between parents and children, using microdata from a special module by the Spanish Living Condition Survey in 2011. In spite of the radical transformations that have taken place, the intensity of transmission has decreased only slightly, but some historical periods are more significant than others. Finally, the article concludes that intergenerational transmission processes present a clearly gender-biased tendency.