income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of education and labour earnings by country …) capable to reduce income inequalities thirty years later. …

autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same students one year later. This paper is the … first to analyse in the OECD-PISA context the potential advantages of re-testing the same students in order to provide …

important role. When controlling for attitudes, however, the relative income position remains significant in affecting the … probability of union membership. We also show that there are no significant trends in the relationship between relative income …

portion of total income inequality, with values ranging from 30 to 50 percent according to the standard deviation of logs. For … education, and c) networking activity of parents. While the first two variables exhibit a declining trend in all countries …

difference in the odds of attaining a college degree between children of college educated parents and children of parents with …In this paper we show that there is a reduction in the correlation coefficient between father and children schooling …

Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children's school choices …. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or magnifying the impact of parents on children … on children choices. Using data from a cross-country survey (PISA 2003), we study the impact of parental education on …

performance in further education or in the labour market, and we seek evidence of such phenomena in Italian data. If students … educational opportunities ("talent" for short), theory predicts that private schools attract a worse pool of students when … publicly funded schools are better suited to foster progress by more talented students. We analyze empirically three surveys of …