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suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …
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"Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labour; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value of household production; transportation; leisure and recreation; pension plans; and health-care...
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offenses, portfolio choice, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the …
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post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement error on prototypical analyses (earnings inequality, mobility and …-nonresponse, thus supporting the "cooperation continuum" hypothesis in all three panels. Thirdly, applying various mobility indicators … there is a robust picture about earnings mobility being significantly understated using information from completely observed …
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In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...
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This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well...
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Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after …
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market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income …
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This paper examines the effect of one partner’s overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner’s labor force … examines the income remittance and the conjugal home-time effects of overseas migration. Addressing the potential endogeneity … of income and migration, estimates establish stronger conjugal home time effects of migration for married women and …
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This paper aims at identifying the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which covered both...
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