and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a … the most recent cohort while education plays a substantially larger role. The first finding results from a smaller effect … of children's ability on status and a reduced correlation between parental status and children's ability. The second …

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 …

future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in …

The paper aims at investigating gender differentials in education and wage across four developed countries of southern …

Using 15 years of data on Finnish twins, we find that 24% (54%) of the variance of women’s (men’s) lifetime income is … by showing that controlling for education reduces the variance share of genetics by 5-8 percentage points; by … demonstrating that income uncertainty has a genetic component half the size of its variance share in lifetime income; and by …

Inequality in individual income, assets or occupational status among society work as a hindrance to realize objective … to economic and or social discrimination leading to lower income and asset possession as well as capability formation. It … is often found that backward social classes are excluded from the process of capability formation and income …

-- around 90 percent -- over time in the U.S. Among those with lower education levels, however, this fraction is much lower and … graduates. These observations suggest that the composition of unobserved skills may be subject to sharp movements within low … college-premium framework accounts for the observed shifts between education categories, but it cannot account for unobserved …

inefficient public university funding. It is the Bulgarian Government and in particular Ministry of Education, Youth and Science … and policies in the fields of labor market and university education. As a result labor market is saturated with …

downward mobility. The results also reveal the importance of some other determinant factors, especially education and initial … occupation. Additionally, considering an analysis by quartiles (taking as reference a ranking based on average wages), we confirm …