[go: up one dir, main page]
IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/dbl/dblwop/1848.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Surnames and Social Rank: Long-term Traits of Social Mobility in Colombia and Chile

Author

Listed:
  • Jaramillo-Echeverri, Juliana
  • Álvarez, Andrés
  • Bro, Naim
Abstract
In the last two years, Colombia and Chile have witnessed strong social protests, characterized by slogans against inequality and the lack of social mobility. In this study we propose a comparative study on social mobility and the persistence of structural social inequalities in both countries. We collect evidence on the level of social immobility and test if it is rooted in historical forms of social segregation in both countries. We base our analysis in surname based methods. We conclude that there are clear indications of a significant persistence of upward immobility of the groups that were originally segregated during the colonial period: Afro-descendants (Colombia) and indigenous people (in both). Furthermore, we find that the downward social immobility of the elites shows an important persistence in both countries. However, in Chile the colonial elites (encomenderos and landowners) present greater persistence in their privileged status, while in Colombia those early elites seem to have converged more quickly to the mean. In both countries, there is a clear persistence of the elites of the second half of the 19th century in todays highest position of the social ladder.

Suggested Citation

  • Jaramillo-Echeverri, Juliana & Álvarez, Andrés & Bro, Naim, 2021. "Surnames and Social Rank: Long-term Traits of Social Mobility in Colombia and Chile," Research Department working papers 1848, CAF Development Bank Of Latinamerica.
    • Handle: RePEc:dbl:dblwop:1848
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://scioteca.caf.com/handle/123456789/1848
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Desarrollo; Desarrollo social; Economía; Investigación socioeconómica; Políticas públicas;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:dbl:dblwop:1848. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Pablo Rolando (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cafffve.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.