Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Social mobility is essential to reducing inequalities, promoting equity, and fostering economic development. This study analyzes the effect of economic liberalization on social mobility in micro-regions of Brazil. To measure regional exposure to openness, the methodology of Dix-Carneiro is applied. Social mobility is approximated from a variable constructed from census data from 1980, 1991, 2000, and 2010, which relates the educational attainment of parents and children. Results indicate that between 1991 and 2000, liberalization reduced social mobility in more exposed regions, and this effect worsened twenty years later. The impact was greater for children of parents with low education, black parents, and single mothers. In addition, liberalization reduced formal employment and wages and increased informal employment.
Source: Revista CS
DOI: 10.18046/recs.i46.04
Author: Haroldo Rodríguez-Páez
Institution: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4415487581
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