Increases in counter mobility yet differ: While in 🇬🇧, the share of ppl from salariat origins who enter the labour market in a lower class position but experience upward career mobility increases, I find the reverse in 🇩🇪... Check out the paper for all the details and analyses! (3/3)

My analyses show that in both countries this is driven by increases in so-called “counter mobility”. Counter mobility occurs when someone is first intergenerationally mobile but then returns to their origin class through later career mobility, e.g. like here: (2/3)

Reform of the social benefit system can therefore have serious and unintended consequences that go beyond a single generation (5/5).

The paper is the first to provide direct evidence on the intergenerational effects of the reform. As children exposed to parental unemployment are already disadvantaged, it shows that #Hartz4 perpetuated the intergenerational transmission of inequality at the very bottom (4/5).

Decline in chances to enter upper sec school for affected children was mainly driven by reductions in benefit levels that decreased parents’ financial resources - NOT by changes in the composition of benefit recipients due to changes in eligibility criteria (3/5).

I used diff-in-diff estimation and data from the #SOEP provided by #DIWBerlin. The research design is based on the comparison of children of unemployment assistance (Arbeitslosenhilfe) recipients to children of parents not receiving social benefits before and after 2005 (2/5).