Exploring the Transition to Higher Education in Greece: Issues of Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Symeonaki, Maria; Stamatopoulou, Glykeria

doi:10.2304/pfie.2014.12.5.681

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“…Each element p ij (t), ∀i, j = 1, 2, 3 of the matrix P(t) describes the probability of an individual to move from state i (parental educational level) to state j (individual's educational level). The off-diagonal elements of the P(t) matrix signify the shifts or movements of individuals, while p ii indicates the probability of individuals remaining static over time in relation to their parental educational status (see also [15,16]). The above model describes a closed Non-Homogeneous Markov System, since our transition probabilities are estimated for each time step t. For a comprehensive description of the theoretical background of the Markov systems, see [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”

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“…Blanden and Machin [14] investigate the relationship between education and intergenerational mobility, discussing the role of education in either facilitating or impeding social mobility. Moreover, Symeonaki and Stamatopoulou [15], Symeonaki et al [16], Stamatopoulou et al [17], and Stamatopoulou and Symeonaki [18] estimate intergenerational educational mobility across European countries, allowing for a comparative study of discrepancies among countries in social mobility, leveraging diverse large-scale European databases, while Symeonaki and Tsinaslanidou [19] studied intergenerational educational mobility across countries with different welfare regimes.…”

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Educational Status as a Mediator of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe: A Positional Analysis Approach

Stamatopoulou,

Tsouparopoulou,

Symeonaki

2024

Mathematics

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This paper investigates the transmission of educational attainment from parents to offspring as a mediator of intergenerational class mobility in Europe. The study covers the last two decades with data drawn from a cross-national large-scale sample survey, namely the European Social Survey (ESS), for the years 2002–2018. Interest has focused on the question of the persistence of inequality of educational opportunities by examining the attainment of nominal levels of education and the association between the educational attainment of the parent with the highest level of education and their descendants. The study also covers new trends in social mobility that consider education as a “positional good”, and a novel method of incorporating educational expansion into the transition probabilities is proposed, providing answers to whether the rising accessibility of educational qualifications attenuates the association between social origin and educational attainment. Therefore, the concept of positionality is taken into account in the estimation of intergenerational transition probabilities, and to complement the analysis, mobility measures are provided for both methods, nominal and positional. The proposed positional method is validated through a correlation analysis between the upward mobility scores (nominal and positional) with the Education Expansion Index (EEI) for the respective years. The upward mobility scores estimated via the positional method are more highly correlated with the EEI for all years, indicating a better alignment with the broader trends in educational participation and achievement.

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Educational Status as a Mediator of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe: A Positional Analysis Approach

Stamatopoulou,

Tsouparopoulou,

Symeonaki

2024

Mathematics

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“…for families of a university-educated father and less so otherwise. The fact that access to higher education in Greece is easier for the socioeconomically privileged, raises issues of social justice and inequalities [9].…”

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Socioeconomic Status and Its Effects on Higher Education Opportunity: The Case of Greece

Ioakimidis¹,

Papakonstantinou²

2017

TEL

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Gaining access to higher education theoretically enables social mobility for students from lower socioeconomic classes but students from lower-income, working class families are much less likely to attend university. Data from a sample survey of over 2000 Greek university freshmen were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis to identify factors influencing the affordability of a first-year university education in Greece. Results showed that family income is the strongest predictor of the affordability of higher education in Greece and that a university education is substantially more affordable for the upper socioeconomic or management classes in Greece compared to that for working class families. This finding partially explains why families from the upper socioeconomic strata in Greece invest the most in preparing their children for university admission. This also helps explain why approximately 80% of the first-year university slots are occupied by "management class" families. While the average Greek family invests almost half of their annual income to support a child's university education, the families of working class families sacrifice almost 60% of their annual income to achieve the same goal, something they can much less afford to do. It should come as no surprise then that the children of working class families occupy only one in five classroom seats in the Greek system of higher education. More research is needed to understand the underlying causes of this disparity. Alternatively, more can be done from a social policy perspective to help promising low-income secondary students become better prepared academically for pursuing and applying to institutions of higher education in Greece.

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“…The data seem to confirm Daouli, Demoussis and Giannakopoulos' research (2010) which found that there is substantial cross-generational educational mobility over time and that daughters seem to have a greater likelihood of upward transitions. Symeonaki and Stamatopoulou (2014) reveals that individuals' likelihood of attaining a higher educational level than that of their parents has increased in the last twenty years and that intergenerational cohort comparisons attest that upward mobility predominates over downward transitions and seems to increase over time, even though this increase has halted for the younger birth cohort.…”

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School-to-University Transition: The Paradox of Motivated but Undecided Students

Christodoulou¹

2021

OJSS

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Educational research on university transitions has repeatedly highlighted that inequalities related to cultural origin still persist even though intergenerational upward mobility has been facilitated over the last fifteen years due to the huge enrollment rates documented across countries in the Western world. In contrast to this line of research in which differences between social or cultural groups are investigated, the unit of analysis in this article is a demographically homogeneous group of families in which the parents invest in university studies as the main route for their children’s post-18 pathways. Through a variable-based research design we explore the conditions which affect high-school students’ motives for following university studies. The main finding has to do with the fact that it is how late or early students make their decision that is the factor differentiating the families within this group and affecting the students’ transition to university.

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Exploring the Transition to Higher Education in Greece: Issues of Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

Educational Status as a Mediator of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe: A Positional Analysis Approach

Educational Status as a Mediator of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe: A Positional Analysis Approach

Socioeconomic Status and Its Effects on Higher Education Opportunity: The Case of Greece

School-to-University Transition: The Paradox of Motivated but Undecided Students

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