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The quest for more and more education: Implications for social mobility

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012

increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

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Social mobility: is there an advantage in being English in Scotland?

van Ham, Maarten; Findlay, Allan; Manley, David; … - 2010

This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour force experience of English-born residents in Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature...

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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Zumbühl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2013

We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...

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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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Are the Upwardly-Mobile More Left-Wing?

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual's starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and...

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Education, social mobility and religious movements: A theory of the Islamic revival in Egypt

Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - 2013

This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...

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Parenting Promotes Social Mobility Within and Across Generations

García, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper compares early childhood enrichment programs that promote social mobility for disadvantaged children within and across generations. Instead of conducting a standard meta-analysis, we present a harmonized primary data analysis of programs that shape current policy. Our analysis is a...

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'Inequality Is the Root of Social Evil,' or Maybe Not? Two Stories about Inequality and Public Policy

Corak, Miles - 2017

Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard … is as true in Canada as it is in almost all of the other rich countries where inequality has risen. In this paper I tell … two stories about inequality – one from the perspective of those who feel it is not a problem worth the worry, and the …

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Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870–2017

Clark, Gregory; Leigh, Andrew; Pottenger, Mike - 2017

than the UK or USA (Mendolia and Siminski, 2016), status persistence for surnames is as high as that in England or the USA …

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