Methoden vergleichen

	Intergenerational Elasticity	Sequence Analysis
Fachgebiet	Sociology	Sociology
Familie	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	1992	1980s–2000 (sociological consolidation)
Urheber	Gary Solon (modern estimation)	Andrew Abbott (introduced to sociology)
Typ	Regression-based measure of intergenerational income persistence	Holistic analysis of categorical state sequences over time
Wegweisende Quelle	Solon, G. (1992). Intergenerational income mobility in the United States. American Economic Review, 82(3), 393–408.	Abbott, A., & Tsay, A. (2000). Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology: review and prospect. Sociological Methods & Research, 29(1), 3–33.
Aliasnamen	IGE, intergenerational income elasticity, intergenerational income persistence, father-son income elasticity	social sequence analysis, life-course sequence analysis, categorical sequence analysis, trajectory analysis
Verwandt	5	5
Zusammenfassung	The intergenerational elasticity of income (IGE) is the workhorse measure of economic mobility: the regression coefficient from regressing a child's adult log income on the parent's log income. It expresses the percentage by which a child's expected income rises for each one-percent increase in parental income, so a higher IGE means income advantages and disadvantages are more strongly transmitted across generations and society is less mobile.	Sequence analysis is a holistic method for studying ordered categorical trajectories — such as month-by-month employment states, family life-course events, or daily activity patterns — by treating each individual's whole sequence as a unit, measuring how dissimilar pairs of sequences are, and grouping them into a typology of characteristic pathways. Introduced to sociology by Andrew Abbott, it shifts attention from isolated transitions to the shape of entire life courses.