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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015

We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...

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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families

Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014

attainment than parental education. …

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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany

Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014

intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

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Intergenerational transmission of spousal inequality

Nguyen, Kieu-Dung - In: Estudios de economía 48 (2021) 1, pp. 5-33

observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we …

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Growing up together: sibling correlation, parental influence, and intergenerational educational mobility in developing countries

Ahsan, Nazmul; Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Han, … - 2022 - This version: July 6, 2022, preliminary draft

We present credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). This is the first paper, to our knowledge, to provide estimates of sibling...

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Is gender destiny? : gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2021 - This version: March 22, 2021

We develop a model of intergenerational educational mobility incorporating gender bias against girls in the family, school, and labor market. Mobility and investment equations from the model are estimated for India using data not truncated by coresidency. The standard linear model misses...

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India

Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020

We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lowerreturns,...

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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazıcı, Hakkı - 2017 - This version: November 2017

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

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Intergenerational education mobility and the level of development : evidence from Turkey

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Yazici, Hakki - 2017

characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a three-generation mobility analysis. We find that … the education mobility is significantly lower in Turkey compared to developed economies. Second, by exploiting large … regional variation in the level of economic development across Turkey, we find that intergenerational education persistence is …

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