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The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Dvorkin, Maximiliano; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop a dynamic labor search model where production and consumption take place in spatially distinct labor markets with varying exposure to domestic and international trade. The model recognizes the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and...
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How Good is a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test
DEMOMBYNES, Gabriel; ELBERS, Chris; LANJOUW, Jean O.; … - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 116 (2008) 4, pp. 465-493
produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set …
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Crecimiento económico y política de transferencias a partir de una matriz de contabilidad social de Andalucía
CASTILLO, FERNANDO ISLA; BERMEJO, LAURA MONICHE; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 20 (2002) Agosto, pp. 423-449
. For example, one object could be to diminish the inequality income function with restraints transfers and different … show that the economic growth increase the levels of inequality in the disposable income. But, this increase can be …
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Innovation and spatial inequality in Europe and USA
Lee, Neil; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
small body of innovators gain relative to others, innovation may lead to inequality. The evidence on this point is … fragmented, based on cross-sectional evidence on skill premia rather than overall levels of inequality. This paper provides the … first comparative evidence on the link between innovation and inequality in a continental perspective. Using micro data from …
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The spatial and career mobility of China's urban and rural labor force
Hao, Lingxin; Liang, Yucheng - In: Management and organization review : MOR ; the official … 12 (2016) 1, pp. 135-158
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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014
The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...
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Intergenerational income persistence : measures of intergenerational persistence can be indicative of equality of opportunity, but the relationship is not clear cut
Blanden, Jo - 2015
A strong association between incomes across generations - with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults - is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such "intergenerational persistence," or lack of intergenerational mobility, are...
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Determinants and perceptions of social mobility in Poland, 1992 - 2008
Sokołowska, Katarzyna - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 89-102
The purpose of this article is to analyse the factors affecting social mobility in Poland, based on results obtained from the estimation of logit models for the years 1992 - 2008 as well as from interviews asking about the necessary conditions to achieve success in life. Data used in this work...
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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...
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Promoting social mobility in Austria
Förster, Michael - 2020
While income inequality in Austria is relatively low compared to many other OECD countries, social mobility lags behind … young age. Third, reducing gender inequality in the labour market would greatly improve social mobility. This requires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630096