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The gap between the conditional wage distributions of incumbents and the newly hired employees : decomposition and uniform ordering
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Pitts, M. Melinda; Wu, Ke - 2014
workers enjoy a better distribution of wages, but the attribution of the gap to wage inequality and human capital …
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Dynamic effects of educational assortative mating on labor supply
Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2016
substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we … accumulation and implied wage growth. Inequality between couples is largely driven by the persistence in labor supply choices and …
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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511571
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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517207
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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
tend to receive care of higher measured quality and higher cost. Inequality is evident at home as well: measures of …-income households, reduces inequality in care provided, but it is mainly limited to older children and to the lowest income households …
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The Great Recession, household income, and children's test scores
McGovern, Mark E.; Rokicki, Slawa - 2018 - Updated October 23 2018
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Explaining the evolution of educational attainment in the U.S.
Castro, Rui; Coen-Pirani, Daniele - 2015
We study the evolution of educational attainment of the 1932-1972 cohorts using a human capital investment model with heterogeneous learning ability. Inter-cohort variation in schooling is driven by changes in skill prices, tuition, and education quality over time, and average learning ability...
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Threshold effects of inequality on the process of economic growth
Bhatti, Arshad Ali; Haque, M. Emranul; Osborn, Denise R. - 2015
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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