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inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … matters for normative evaluation. In response to this counter, we ask what pattern of intergenerational mobility leads to … as identical prospects irrespective of starting position. We find that this is not necessarily the mobility pattern which …
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contract interpretation, while US regional labour markets are characterized by high regional mobility, rendering insurance less …
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The theory of full consumption insurance posits that households are insulated from all idiosyncratic shocks so that the … implies absence of consumption mobility between any two time periods. This implication requires knowledge of the evolution of … prediction of the theory using a panel drawn from the Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. We design an …
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systems of increasing factor mobility. In particular, we expect the extent of redistribution (both intra- and … intergenerational) in national pension systems to decrease. The latter result should hold true even in the presence of mobility limited … of mobility: not only mobility at the beginning of the working life, but also mobility during the working career and …
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In this paper, I analyse the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … transition, regional disparities in unemployment rates and earnings have increased. More importantly, labour mobility has little …
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Migration is an investment: it involves fixed, unrecoverable costs and uncertain future returns. If migration can be postponed, the option value of doing so may have positive value. Migration may not occur for a range of individuals who would otherwise migrate on a net present value basis. This...
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, INSEE, and builds a time series on various mobility indices for the first time. Using six mobility concepts, we chart wage … mobility trends for the working population and compare mobility rates in various population subgroups differentiated by gender …, and education. We then compare mobility trends over time for each population subgroup. Next, we relate the extent of …
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? We investigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish couples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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mobility by the two groups of workers sustains the second best optimum. …
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. Our method also allows for interactions between the regional and sectoral mobility of labour. We apply this to the UK … of education and housing tenure on regional and sectoral mobility. …
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