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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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Extracting the causal component from the intergenerational correlation in unemployment

Ekhaugen, Tyra - 2005

This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling-difference method, separates that correlation into its causal and non-causal parts. Detailed register data covering the entire Norwegian population provide the long panel of data this...

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Educational Opportunities of Children in Poverty

Schöb, Anke - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 172-179

In this paper, I use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to investigate whether and how a German youth' s choice of secondary school (Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium) varies with the timing and duration of poverty experienced in childhood. To investigate what role the timing of...

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Income capability and child care

Bojer, Hilde - 2006

This paper has a twofold purpose. It argues firstly, that analysis of income distribution should be a part of the … capability approach. Secondly, it argues that the capability approach is a good theoretical foundation for analysis of income … distribution. The capability approach to human advantage has not hitherto been applied in mainstream analysis of income and wealth …

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The time cost of children and equivalent full incomes

Bojer, Hilde - 2002

income is full income a..l defined by Gary Becker, while time spent caring for children at home is unpaid work. Equivalent … full income for a household with pre-school children is defined. It is also shown that, as long as the wage rate is higher …When defining and estimating the cost of children and equivalent incomes, children's consumption is normally defined as …

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