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We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...
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employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …
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bill if employment effects neglected by previous empirical studies are taken into account. Any increase in the total wage … bill by higher wage rates set is equally compensated for by lower levels of employment. If adjustments in employment due to …
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In this paper, we analyse how increasing student migration from a less developed to a developed country alters education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a higher permanent migration probability, i.e., a higher...
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A main feature characterising the transition process of Eastern Germany is the scope with which east-west migration took place before, during, and after the German unification. Overall, roughly 2.77 million East Germans left their territory to migrate to the west between 1989 and 2002 (gross...
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the subsequent reunification process between the former centrally planned GDR and the market-oriented Federal Republic of Germany, rapidly raised fears about mass migration movements from the eastern to the western part. The anxiety of an...
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degree of mobility across genders, with a higher mobility level for daughters than for sons. The reason for this gender gap …This paper employs mobility matrices, univariate regressions and multivariate econometric techniques based on the … recently published nationally representative household survey (PNAD-2014) from Brazil to investigate the relevance of the …
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test … evidence against Gregory Clark's "universal law of social mobility". In general, our results show that the long run persistence …
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-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to filling this gap computing time … series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over … 50 years, and making them publicly available. We find that intergenerational mobility has been rising in Latin America …
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-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of … intergenerational mobility. …
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