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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Labour Mobility in Australia in the Nineties: A Preliminary Look at the Effects of the Technological Change.

Junankar, P.N.; kapuscinski, C.A.; Meng, X. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997

This paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council funded project designed to encrease our understanding of labour mobility and its determinants and , in particular, to trace the importance, strength and the effects of technological change on sectoral, occupational and inter-regional...

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Occupational Choice Across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both natives … choice, and that individuals with more education choose higher-ranking jobs. The role of experience is important for natives …

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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility

Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to measuring this reduced-form parameter, less is known about its underlying structural determinants....

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More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the United States

Checchi, Daniele; Ichino, Andrea; Rustichini, Aldo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

A state school system should be expected to reduce income inequality and to make intergenerational mobility easier. It is therefore somewhat surprising to observe that Italy, in comparison to the United States, displays less inequality between occupational incomes, but lower intergenerational...

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Inequality and Mobility

Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José; Zeira, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We use a general equilibrium OLG model to analyse the relation between intergenerational social mobility and wage inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality. The model can thus help discriminate between...

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More Inequality, Less Social Mobility

Andrews, Dan; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We investigate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. Proxying fathers’ earnings with using detailed occupational data, we find that sons who grew up in countries that were more unequal in the 1970s were less likely to have experienced social mobility by the...

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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted sons born in Sweden, we have access to the criminal records of both the adopting and biological parents. This allows us to assess the relative importance of pre-birth factors...

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In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …

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