Social origins, geographical mobility and occupational attainment in contemporary Italy

Ballarino, Gabriele; Panichella, Nazareno

doi:10.1186/s41118-020-00112-4

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“…D' Agostino et al (2019) and Impicciatore and Tosi (2019) note how this mobility is also affected by contextual factors such as students' social class and family background. These findings suggest the Italian mobility is in line with that of students found in the international literature (Etzo 2011;Nifo and Vecchione 2014;Ballarino and Panichella 2021).…”

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A network analysis of student mobility patterns from high school to master’s

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Human migration involves the movement of people from one place to another. An example of undirected migration is Italian student mobility where students move from the South to the Center-North. This kind of mobility has become of general interest, and this work explores student mobility from Sicily towards universities outside the island. The data used in this paper regards six cohorts of students, from 2008/09 to 2013/14. In particular, our goal is to study the 3-step migration path: the area of origin (Sicilian provinces), the regional university for the bachelor's degree, and the regional university for the master's. Our analysis is conducted by building a multipartite network with four sets of nodes: students; Sicilian provinces; bachelor region of studies; and the master region of studies. By projecting the students' set onto the others, we obtain a tripartite network where the number of students represents the link weight. Results show that the big Sicilian cities-Palermo, Catania, and Messina-have different preferential paths compared to small Sicilian cities. Furthermore, the results reveal preferential paths of 3-step mobility that only, in part, reflect a south-north orientation in the transition from the region of study for the bachelor degree to that for the master's.

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“…Therefore, even when individuals from a less privileged background "made it" (migrate for study)-considering the challenges related with it-this is not sufficient to compensate for their family background on occupations. Focusing on graduates, this study complements the recent evidence by Ballarino and Panichella (2021) that highlighted that geographical mobility is not sufficient to overcome the obstacles encountered by individuals from a less privileged background in changing the social hierarchy.…”

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“…As the labour market outcomes of highly educated individuals is still stratified by social origins (Bernardi & Ballarino, 2016;Witteveen & Attewell, 2020), the question is whether internal migration might be a channel of the intergenerational reproduction of inequality on the labour market. As this paper focuses on income and access to professional and managerial occupations (EGP I-II), it complements the previous research that studies employment stability (Panichella, 2013) and access to upper class, avoidance of working-class and agricultural occupations (Ballarino & Panichella, 2021) as measures for occupational attainment in the migration process.…”

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“…On the one hand, individuals from a privileged background 2 possess social, economic, and cultural resources (Bourdieu, 1984;Erikson & Jonsson, 1998) that are useful in the migration process. Thus, a privileged background is likely to increase the probability of migration (Ballarino & Panichella, 2021;Impicciatore & Tosi, 2019;Panichella, 2013). However, on the other hand, a privileged background might provide less incentive for individuals to migrate as their parental resources could be even more useful in the place of origin (Capuano, 2012).…”

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Privilege travels: migration and labour market outcomes of Southern Italian graduates

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2022

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This paper contributes to the literature on social stratification by analysing the role of internal migration as a possible channel for the intergenerational transmission of inequality. While internal migration is associated with social mobility, it can also be used as a strategy of status maintenance among graduates from privileged backgrounds. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize whether internal migration for study or work, and subsequent labour market outcomes, are associated with social origins. Using a rich administrative and survey data set on a cohort of Italian graduates, findings show a substantive effect of social origins on graduates’ migration for study but not on migration for work. Finally, the results also more tentatively indicate that migration for study is one relevant path connecting social origins and income, thus emphasizing how privilege is not bound to place, but travels.

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“…( 2021 ) propose an intermediate category “half mover” for identifying who moves in neighbouring regions. Ballarino and Panichella ( 2021 ) extend this definition including variables such as type of episode rural–urban (from rural to urban, from rural to rural, from urban to urban and from urban to rural), distance and time, but in the models they still use the classical definition of stayers and mover. This paper finds its place in this context with the aim of describing and measuring the Italian students’ mobility in time.…”

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A new measure for the attitude to mobility of Italian students and graduates: a topological data analysis approach

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Students’ and graduates’ mobility is an interesting topic of discussion especially for the Italian education system and universities. The main reasons for migration and for the so called brain drain, can be found in the socio-economic context and in the famous North–South divide. Measuring mobility and understanding its dynamic over time and space are not trivial tasks. Most of the studies in the related literature focus on the determinants of such phenomenon, in this paper, instead, combining tools coming from graph theory and Topological Data Analysis we propose a new measure for the attitude to mobility. Each mobility trajectory is represented by a graph and the importance of the features constituting the graph are evaluated over time using persistence diagrams. The attitude to mobility of the students is then ranked computing the distance between the individual persistence diagram and the theoretical persistence diagram of the stayer student. The new approach is used for evaluating the mobility of the students that in 2008 enrolled in an Italian university. The relation between attitude to mobility and the main socio-demographic variables is investigated.

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Social origins, geographical mobility and occupational attainment in contemporary Italy

Cited by 15 publications

References 34 publications

A network analysis of student mobility patterns from high school to master’s

A network analysis of student mobility patterns from high school to master’s

Privilege travels: migration and labour market outcomes of Southern Italian graduates

A new measure for the attitude to mobility of Italian students and graduates: a topological data analysis approach

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