Analyzing and Comparing Social Mobility Tables Using a Relational Approach: Continuity and Fault Lines between Occupational Categories
This work aims to compare tables of social mobility by age, sex, social origin, date of survey (according to FQP surveys of INSEE 2003 and 2014/2015) by using 31 occupational groups and tools of Graph Theory. We propose to investigate if it is possible to deduce a hierarchy between the groups starting from the significant flows. We show that there is a strong continuity between the categories and that a center(s) / periphery(ies) type structure emerges, in particular in 2014/2015 when the interviewee is compared to his parent of same sex as her.