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collect detailed time-use information on students before and during the school closures in a survey of 1,099 parents in … argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We … Germany. We find that while students on average reduced their daily learning time of 7.4 hours by about half, the reduction …
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It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …
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between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility … lower upward mobility for children from low-income parents, higher intergenerational elasticity for children whose parents … from low-income parents if replacement of routine labor is high, and educational polarization for younger generations. I …
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Numerous studies have found that school proximity and parents' educational background affect individuals' educational … these choices, as the variety of fields and majors in students' nearest universities vary considerably across locations …. Parents' influence on the field of study choice could, then again, arise from inherited or learned career preferences that …
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This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil … favored municipalities, there will be a new element of attraction of students that will be qualified and may stay there …
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relating to income on a national level. Polish GDP per capita (in PPP terms) increased from 49% of European Union average in … does not spread out proportionally on all regions and income convergence is not observed. Instead, the relatively fastest … purpose of the research is to analyze the relationship between the local convergence of income and educational achievements on …
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accounting gains lower income groups would suffer welfare losses and higher income groups enjoy welfare gains through indirect …
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Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by … analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … labour income mobility are larger in Germany than in the US. This indicates that economic growth has been distributed more …
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This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in multiple provinces, comparing the province of maximum predicted earnings to the province of residence and assessing the predicted gains from relocation. The paper performs the...
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The literature shows a wage premium for graduates from high quality, elite, or more selective universities. The results, however, exist for countries with a clear hierarchy of top universities, such as the US, England, and Australia. I evaluate if such an effect also exists in Germany, a country...
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