The Effect of Social Benefit Reform on Educational Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2116412 |
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| Authors | Nhat An Trinh (0000-0002-4448-0160, Oxford Policy Management, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1073-1094 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047279422000848 |
| OpenAlex | W4310059412 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 44 |
Cross-country research argues that the design of welfare states and social protection systems shapes the intergenerational transmission of inequality. Studies that examine this relationship within a country are however lacking from the literature. Based on a quasi-experimental research design using difference-in-differences estimation and data from the Socio-Economic Panel, I analyse whether the educational disadvantage of children of long-term unemployment assistance recipients increased after changes to eligibility criteria, benefit levels, and conditionality were introduced in Germany in 2005. I find that differences in the probability to enter the academic secondary school track between children of parents receiving long-term unemployment assistance one year before the transition and children of parents not receiving unemployment or social benefits increased by 13 percentage points. In part, this was driven by the introduction of means-testing that changed the composition of unemployment assistance recipients. However, further decreases in the financial conditions of these already disadvantaged families following reductions in benefit levels appear as the main driver of the observed effect. Changes in parental subjective wellbeing due to increased benefit conditionality and stigma do not seem to play a significant mediating role. The findings highlight the important contribution of social policy to social mobility and equality of opportunity
Conditionality · Demographic economics · Disadvantage · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Political science · Social Assistance · Social inequality · Social mobility · Social protection · Stigma (botany) · Unemployment · Welfare · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Persistent inequality
Unemployment as a Social Norm
High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being
Education, opportunity, and social inequality
The German Socio-Economic Panel (Soep)
Hartz and Minds
Inequality in Transitions to Secondary School and Tertiary Education in Germany
Changes in Inequality of Educational Opportunity
Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany
Parental Unemployment and the Transition into Tertiary Education
Linking the macro to the micro
The European Socio-Economic Classification
Welfare regimes and social stratification
Economic miracle, political disaster? Political consequences of Hartz IV
Reforming German labour market institutions
Welfare states and social mobility
Consequences of growing up poor
Parental Job Loss and Children's Educational Attainment in Black and White Middle‐Class Families
Intergenerational Class Mobility in Europe
Elterliche Arbeitslosigkeitsdynamiken und Bildungsverläufe vom Ende der Grundschulzeit bis zum jungen Erwachsenenalter
The three worlds of welfare capitalism
Effects of the Great Recession on Child Development
Increasing inter-generational social mobility
How Benefits Recipients Perceive Themselves through the Lens of the Mass Media - Some Observations from Germany
Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects in Logit and Probit Models
Social Class of Men, Women and Families
Interpreting and Understanding Logits, Probits, and Other Nonlinear Probability Models
The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment
Parental Unemployment and the Transition to Vocational Training in Germany
Fostering Equality of Opportunity? Compulsory Schooling Reform and Social Mobility in Germany
Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There is More of it Around? A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland
Logistic Regression
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