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How important is the family? : evidence from sibling correlations in permanent earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2011
. This holds true for brothers and sisters. In Denmark 20 percent of the inequality in permanent earnings can be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936425
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Locus of control and low-wage mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013
We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190193
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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2019
Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231945
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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018
Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919636
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Policy, institutional factors and earnings mobility
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … ECHP, minimum distance estimator is used to decompose earnings inequality into the permanent and transitory components and … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635027
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Increased opportunity to move up the economic ladder? : earnings mobility in EU ; 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
. All countries recording an increase in cross-sectional inequality recorded also a decrease in short-term mobility. Among … countries where inequality decreased, short-term mobility increased in Denmark, Spain, Ireland and UK, and decreased in Belgium …
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Equalizing or disequalizing lifetime earnings differentials? : earnings mobility in the EU ; 1994-2001
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009
what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality …, Germany, and the lowest, Portugal. The highest mobility as equalizer of longer term inequality is recorded in Ireland and …
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Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools into Private Schools?
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.  The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.  For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928894
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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.  We also examine whether "white flight" is from all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929810
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Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance
Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014
Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance.  We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives.  In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929812