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Intergenerational (im)mobility in Pakistan : is the social elevator broken?

Andlib, Zubaria; Sadiq, Maqsood; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024

information on individuals and their real parents. The empirical analysis highlights that the level of parents' education is more … relevant than the level of parents' occupation skills in individuals' social and educational opportuni ties. In addition …

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Social mobility and political regimes : intergenerational mobility in Hungary,1949-2017

Bukowski, Paweł; Clark, Gregory; Gáspár, Attila; … - 2021

This paper measures social mobility rates in Hungary 1949-2017, for upper class and underclass families, using surnames to measure social status. In these years there were two very different social regimes. The first was the Hungarian People's Republic, 1949-1989, a Communist regime with an...

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What the mean measures of mobility miss : learning about intergenerational mobility from conditional variance

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, … - 2022 - This version: February 17, 2022

A large literature on intergenerational mobility focuses on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes to … suggests a strong influence of father's education on conditional variance of children's schooling. We find substantial … measures substantially underestimate the effects of family background on children's educational opportunities, and may give a …

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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick; Zhang, Min - 2023

In this paper we use linked Census data to document rates of intergenerational housing mobility across ethnic groups in England and Wales. While home ownership has declined across all ethnic groups, we find substantial differences between them, with Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi households...

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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...

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Ethnic differences in intergenerational housing mobility in England and Wales

Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick; Zhang, Min - 2023 - [rev.]

Home ownership is the largest component of wealth for most households and its intergenerational transmission underpins the production and reproduction of economic inequalities across generations. Yet, little is currently known about ethnic differences in the intergenerational transmission of...

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The anti-corruption campaign and the inter-generational transmission of working in bureaucracy : evidence from China

Chen, Shuai; Ge, Erqi - 2022

a bureaucrat parent and those without. We find that before the campaign, bureaucrats' children were over 13 percentage … this advantage of bureaucrats' children. However, after the campaign took effect, this premium significantly reduced by …-generational transmission. We do not find evidence supporting other two alternative channels: the insider information of bureaucrat parents on …

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Intergenerational mobility : an assessment for Latin American countries

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Yavuz, Hasan Bilgehan; Pastore, … - 2019

This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and … have a stagnant economy coupled with high income inequality. Our rich and detailed dataset, the IPUMS survey data bank …

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Intergenerational occupational mobility in Latin American economies : an empirical approach

Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco; Yavuz, Hasan … - 2020

Identifying the determinants of intergenerational mobility is an important aim in the development literature. In this article, intergenerational transmission is examined for 6 neglected Latin American Economies (Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Puerto Rico). We use a multinomial...

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Gender inequality in nutrition intake : evidence from a large assistance program

Wang, Qing; Zhang, Shiying - 2020

covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …

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