Similar Search Results

New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Australia

Mendolia, Silvia - 2015

We present new estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticity for Australia. We closely follow the methodology used by Leigh (2007), but use considerably more data (twelve waves of HILDA and four waves of PSID). Our adjusted estimates are intended to be comparable to those for other...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014010

Migration and Cultural Change

Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin - 2022

We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically and from a global viewpoint whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084067

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan Among Sons and Daughters : Levels and Trends

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2012

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096460

Interpreting Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility

Nybom, Martin - 2013

We examine how intergenerational income mobility responds to structural changes in a simple theoretical model of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077332

Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139048

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers

Corak, Miles - 2010

Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144694

Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores

Brown, Sarah - 2009

In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent test scores of their offspring measured in 1991. Our results suggest that how the parent performs...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764692

Scientifico! Like Dad : On the Intergenerational Transmission of STEM Education in Italy

Chise, Diana - 2019

sons than for daughters. The documented STEM intergenerational transmission is not driven by liberal profession of parents …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860520

Gender Gap in Intergenerational Educational Persistence : Can Compulsory Schooling Reduce it?

Demirel, Merve - 2020

parents' educational attainment with their offspring's. Daughters exhibit more intergenerational persistence than sons. We … show that the education reform that increased compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years, exposed children born after 1986 to 3 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831215

The Effects of Education on Health : An Intergenerational Perspective

Huebener, Mathias - 2018

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and …, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and … overweight in adolescence. The effects persist into children's adulthood, reducing chronic conditions that often result from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911107