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Spatial and Social Mobility
Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2015
income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative … and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that both segregation and regional …
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Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870-2017
Clark, Gregory; Leigh, Andrew; Pottenger, Mike - 2017
The paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870-2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status information includes occupations from electoral rolls, and records of degrees awarded by Melbourne and Sydney universities. Status persistence was strong throughout, with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744956
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Human Capital, Social Mobility and the Skill Premium
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, Jim; … - 2013
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...
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Redistribution or education?: the political economy of the social race
Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2007
social mobility than under political regimes supported by the rich; pretax inequality is greater in the first case, but post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264081
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Social Mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
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Don't Stop Believin’ – Heterogeneous Updating of Intergenerational Mobility Perceptions Across Income Groups
Schwarz, Anna; Warum, Philipp - 2023
This article presents a novel explanation why demand for redistribution on average does not respond to information on low intergenerational mobility. Building on insights from behavioral economics, we expect that incentives to update perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the...
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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
G.C. Britto, Diogo; Fonseca, Alexandre de Andrade; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
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Individual Consequences of Occupational Decline
Edin, Per-Anders; Evans, Tiernan; Graetz, Georg; … - 2019
What are the earnings and employment losses that workers suffer when demand for their occupations declines? To answer this question we combine forecasts on occupational employment changes, which allow us to identify unanticipated declines; administrative data on the population of Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052826
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Inequality and happiness: When perceived social mobility and economic reality do not match
Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2010
In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274890
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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179898