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Table 3 Educational Mobility of Asylum Seekers in Comparison to their Region of Origin

From: Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills: New evidence

Country/Region

N

Slope coefficient

Absolute upward mobility

\(\beta\)

\(\beta\) GDIM

\(\mathrm{Pr}\left(c>p\right)\)

\(\mathrm{Pr}\left(c>p\right)\) GDIM

Afghanistan

84

0.42

(0.09)

(0.24–0.60)

0.54

0.53

(0.06)

(0.41–0.64)

0.36

Syria

35

0.23

(0.12)

(0.00–0.45)

0.33

[0.21–0.48]

0.62

(0.10)

(0.45–0.80)

0.66

[0.46–0.77]

Iraq

32

0.31

(0.11)

(0.10–0.52)

0.45

0.54

(0.10)

(0.34–0.74)

0.45

MENA

78

0.25

(0.08)

(0.10–0.40)

0.36

[0.21–0.55]

0.59

(0.06)

(0.46–0.71)

0.64

[0.45–0.77]

Sub-Saharan

38

0.45

(0.10)

(0.26–0.64)

0.52

[0.23–0.78]

0.74

(0.07)

(0.61–0.88)

0.35

[0.13–0.64]

Total Sample

206

0.35

(0.05)

0.60

(0.04)

  1. Estimates pertain to the respective subgroups of young male refugees in our sample by their country or region of origin. \(\beta\) is the slope coefficient retrieved from the estimates of Eq. (1). \(\mathrm{Pr}\left(c>p\right)\) is the probability an individual has a higher level of education than their parents, given the parents are not in the highest category (tertiary education). Below our estimates in parentheses are the bootstrapped standard errors and 95% confidence intervals obtained with 1000 replications. GDIM: World Bank estimates retrieved from the GDIM for males of the 1980′s birth cohort. Point estimates shown for single countries, while average values for synthetic control groups include the range [min–max] in brackets. N shows the number of observations within the subgroup. Reginal composition in our sample: MENA: State of Palestine (6 observations), Syria (35), Iran (2)