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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian

Corak, Miles; Heisz, Andrew - EconWPA - 1998

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than...

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The Evolution of Wealth Inequality in Canada, 1984-1999

Morissette, Rene; Zhang, Xuelin; Drolet, Marie - EconWPA - 2004

evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) Wealth inequality has … increased between 1984 and 1999; 2) the growth in wealth inequality has been associated with substantial declines in real … average and median wealth for recent immigrants and young couples with children; 3) real median wealth and real average wealth …

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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003

Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...

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Signalling equilibrium, Intergenerational mobility and long-run growth

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996

This paper provides a signalling model of endogenous growth in which innate talents and education levels of workers drive the basic scientific knowledge and adoptive knowledge accumulation processes. Whether talented individuals get properly educated and are employed in the appropriate technical...

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Job-Search Methods and Labor Market Transitions in a Segmented Economy

Woltermann, Silke - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the impact of job search methods on the output of the job search process in a segmented labor market. Theoretical models of job search, like the widely used search approach, generally contain only one parameter capturing all possible factors affecting the efficiency of...

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The Geographical Mobility of Mâori in New Zealand

Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - EconWPA - 2005

This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Mâori ethnic group in New Zealand between 1991 and 2001. It is often suggested that Mâori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of...

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The evolution of income inequality in the European Union

Alvarez-Garcia, Santiago; Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; … - EconWPA - 2003

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. Using the information contained in the European Community Household Panel, corresponding to the four first waves. Using the inverse second order stochastic...

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Household Wealth, Public Consumption, and Economic Well-Being in the United States

Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit; Caner, Asena - EconWPA - 2003

-household wealth and public consumption-in the context of the United States. Our findings suggest that the level and distribution of … economic well-being is substantially altered when money income is adjusted for wealth or public consumption. …

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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...

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The median voter hypothesis, income inequality and income

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The median voter hypothesis has been central to an extensive literature on consequences of income distribution. For example, it has been proposed that greater inequality is associated with lower growth, because of the greater redistribution that is sought by the median voter when income...

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