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Cross-national rankings of intergenerational mobility: a comparison of approaches from economics and sociology
Blanden, Jo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
, education or social class. The literatures on education and income mobility reveal a similar ranking with South America, other … second part of the paper looks for explanations for the differences in earnings and education persistence and finds that … mobility is negatively correlated with inequality and the return to education but positively correlated with a nation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126209
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Intergenerational mobility in the United States and Great Britain: a comparative study of parent-child pathways
Blanden, Jo; Haveman, Robert; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
pathways by which parental status is related to offspring status, including education, labor market attachment, occupation … because of the higher returns to education and skills, the pathway through offspring education is relatively more important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240196
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Galtonian regression of intergenerational income linkages: biased procedures, a new estimator and mean-square error comparisons
Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
Because the permanent incomes of parents and children are typically unobserved, the estimation of the intergenerational correlation via the use of proxy variables entails an errors-in-variables bias. By solving a system of moment equations for income observed at a given year, and a T-period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744871
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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship
Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744921
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Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain
Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper investigates whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. We find that young people with unionized fathers are twice as likely to be unionized as those with non-union fathers and that this rises to three times higher for those whose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745101
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Cross-generation correlations of union status for young people in Britain
Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
In this paper we investigate whether young people whose fathers are union members are themselves more likely to join a union. The work builds upon a large social science literature on intergenerational mobility that, to our knowledge, has not been applied to industrial relations questions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745307
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Estimating the intergenerational correlation of incomes: an errors in variables framework
Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
The estimation of the intergenerational correlation of incomes is usually carried out by proxying permanent incomes using suitable indicators of economic status, and by treating the resulting measurement error problem using averaging or instrumenting procedures. Here we take the permanent income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745339
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Intergenerational mobility in Britain : revisiting the prediction approach of Dearden, Machin and Reed
Abul Naga, Ramses H.; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
The prediction approach proposed by Dearden, Machin and Reed (DMR) consists in (1) regressing the observed incomes of the child and parent families on separate sets of predetermined variables, and (2) regressing the child’s predicted income on that of the parents. Conceptually, this estimator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745477
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Explaining the black-white homeownership gap: the role of own wealth, parental externalities and locational preferences
Hilber, Christian A. L.; Liu, Yingchun - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
African Americans in the United States are considerably less likely to own their homes compared to Whites. Differences in household income and other socio-economic and demographic characteristics can only partially explain this gap and previous studies suggest that the ‘unexplained’ gap has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745486
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Changes in earnings inequality and mobility in Great Britain 1978/9-2005/6
Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that includes both those with secure patterns of employment and a wider group who experience periods without earnings. It finds significant increases in annual earnings inequality for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745591