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Assortative Mating and Intergenerational Persistence of Schooling and Earnings
Handy, Christopher - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Research on intergenerational mobility has often treated outcomes such as schooling and earnings as being imperfectly transmitted from one parent to a child. But because the characteristics of both parents are important in shaping children’s outcomes, the way in which a generation of parents...
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Wages & income mobility in Indian labour market: the post-reform scenario
Ray, Jhilam; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
market. Though most studies compare wages at different points of time from cross-sectional data, they provide an aggregative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259901
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Is there a Gatsby Curve for Educational Attainment in Arab Countries?
driouchi, ahmed; Gamar, Alae - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Abstract This is to assess intergenerational mobility and inequalities in educational attainment in Arab countries with the aim of finding out about the existence of a Gatsby curve for education. The existence of links between intergenerational mobility and inequalities provide useful insights...
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Exploring the sources of earnings transmission in Spain
Cervini-Plá, María - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper explores the mechanisms behind the intergenerational earnings mobility in Spain by means of three exercises: calculating the transition matrix, decomposing the sources of earnings elasticity and estimating quantile earnings regressions. By calculating the transition matrices we find a...
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Intergenerational mobility and interraical inequality:the return to family values
Mason, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper investigates two questions. First, what is the relative importance of the components of childhood family environment—parental values versus parental class status—for young adult economic outcomes? Second, are interracial differences in labor market outcomes fully explained by...
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Educational and occupational mobility across generations in India: social and regional dimensions
Ray, Jhilam; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Educational and Occupational Mobility is a cherished dream for all groups of people, more so for those who are at the bottom rungs of society. However, it is often seen that upward mobility is concentrated among the socially well-offs leading to divergence in educational attainment and...
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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...
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Human capital and trends in the transmission of economic status across generations in the U.S.
Richey, Jeremiah; Rosburg, Alicia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate the changing roles of ability and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a decomposition method based on the OLS omitted variable bias...
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Poverty in Tribal Dominated Economy: Dimensions and Proximate Determinants
Ray, Jhilam; Sengupta, Atanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Inequality in individual income, assets or occupational status among society work as a hindrance to realize objective of balanced economic development. Also with the modernisation of society and integration of economies the question of social fluidity is becoming essential aspect of development....
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Youth unemployment, firm size and reservation wages in South Africa
Rankin, Neil A.; Roberts, Gareth A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Youth unemployment in South Africa is high. We investigate whether one of the reasons may be that the wages young … work on the relationship between reservation wages and unemployment we differentiate between wages in different sizes of … firms. Larger firms pay more and thus, even if reservation wages are similar to average predicted wages they may be above …
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