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Human capital and income distribution in a model of corruption
Ahsan, Humna; Blackburn, Keith - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311178
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433990
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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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Profile and determinants of the middle-income class in the Philippines
Albert, Jose Ramon G.; Santos, Angelo Gabrielle F.; … - 2018
The middle-income class plays a crucial role in socio-economic development and in achieving long-term aspirations articulated in Ambisyon 2040, which envisages a predominantly "middle class" society where no one is poor. However, there is no standard definition for the middle income class that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992831
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Poverty reduction through growth, redistribution and social inclusion in times of COVID-19 : Kenyan evidence on the underlying mechanisms
Mwabu, Germano M. - In: Journal of African economies 32 (2023), pp. ii69-ii80
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The medium- and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire: A dynamic microsimulation study
Grimm, Michael - 2004
I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d’Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses...
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