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The degree of assortative mating shows the degree of similarity within couples. Many papers try to calculate earnings correlations between husbands and wives. This paper tries to calculate the earnings correlations for Turkey and consider the effect of the sample selection. Our results show that...
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period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be …
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-sharing between the two generations, so that poor families experience higher agency costs, therefore inequality persists. …
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We develop a model in which individuals choose education to improve their earnings and regulate the cultural traits … they acquire via social transmission. When education makes individuals more receptive to mainstream culture, minority … groups underinvest in education as a form of cultural resistance. Economic and cultural incentives interact in surprising …
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inequality, wage inequality, and income deciles and income percentiles for the sample of developed and developing countries. The …
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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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The demographic transition is perhaps the most important event to occur in human affairs during the last 250 years, since the time of the enlightenment. It started in the countries of north-western Europe, and it has gone on to affect the rest of the world (Dyson 2009). Signified by the...
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differences on the education attainment of the population had an effect of reducing the inequality, the policy of paying better …Using the censuses of 2000 and 2010, we have noticed that the inequality of the household per capita income in the … biggest Brazilian cities did not show a trend of reduction, differently from the whole country. Also, the inequality in those …
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differences on the education attainment of the population had an effect of reducing the inequality, the policy of paying better …Using the censuses of 2000 and 2010, we have noticed that the inequality of the household per capita income in the … biggest Brazilian cities did not show a trend of reduction, differently from the whole country. Also, the inequality in those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107755
period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025312