The role of social determinants on men's and women's mobility in Italy. A comparison of discriminant analysis and artificial neural networks

Antonio De Lillo, Cinzia Meraviglia

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the role of the spouse's occupation as a resource for mobile individuals, from the perspective that social positions are held by families, rather than by individuals. Three groups are confronted in terms of the role of the key variables and other relevant factors: men whose spouse does not have a paid job (group 1), men and women whose spouse has a paid job (group 2 and 3). The data set is provided by the national survey on social mobility in Italy, carried out in 1985; social achievements of members of the three groups are considered, including social origins and destinations, social position corresponding to respondent's first job, cultural background (educational achievement of respondent's father and mother found), respondent's education and spouse's social position. The techniques used are discriminant analysis and back propagation Neural Networks. Both techniques traced a clear boundary between group 1 and groups 2 and 3, which were discriminated mainly on the basis of the spouse's occupation; Artificial Neural Networks reached better classification results and allowed a deeper insight into the nonlinear effects of the discriminating variables for the three groups.

Lingua originaleInglese
pagine (da-a)751-764
Numero di pagine14
RivistaSubstance Use and Misuse
Volume33
Numero di pubblicazione3
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1998
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