Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 84
Cover Image
Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s
Levine, David I. (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001697071
Cover Image
Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632
Cover Image
Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers
Jacobsen, Louis (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001761397
Cover Image
The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings
Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920916
Cover Image
Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...
Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944185
Cover Image
Qui poursuit des etudes superieures? L'incidence directe et indirecte des antecedents familiaux sur l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires
Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross; Sweetman, Arthur - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
Le present document de recherche revele que les antecedents familiaux (niveau de scolarite des parents, type de famille …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005322038
Cover Image
Antecedents familiaux et acces aux etudes postsecondaires : que s'est-il passe pendant les annees 1990?
Laporte, Christine; Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004
Dans cet article, on fait etat de nouvelles donnees sur les relations entre l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires et les antecedents familiaux. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees tirees de l'Enquete aupres des sortants (EAS) et celles de l'Enquete aupres des jeunes en transition (EJET) pour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005322083
Cover Image
Participation in Post-secondary Education in Canada: Has the Role of Parental Income and Education Changed over the 1990s?
Drolet, Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
-standing pattern that university participation rates are highest among youths from high-income families and of highly educated parents … parents' level of education than with their income. The paper discusses significant data gaps and concludes that these data … background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328107
Cover Image
Family Income and Participation in Post-secondary Education
Zhao, John; Lipps, Garth; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to … which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328166
Cover Image
Family Background and Access to Post-secondary Education: What Happened over the 1990s?
Laporte, Christine; Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004
This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background. It uses the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to analyse participation rates in 1991 and 2000.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328167