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Does inequality reduce mobility? The Great Gatsby Curve and its mechanisms
Brandén, Gunnar - 2019
men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388861
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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital
Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609097
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The impact of peer personality on academic achievement
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Non, Jan Adrianus; Zölitz, Ulf - 2017
This paper provides evidence of a novel facet of peer effects by showing how peer personality affects educational … persistence of their peers. The personality peer effects that we document are distinct from other observable peer characteristics … and suggest that the personality traits of peers causally affect human capital accumulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784303
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Firms and skills: The evolution of worker sorting
Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015
We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440154
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Gender inequality in a globalizing world
Seguino, Stephanie - 2005
Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330090
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School density and inequality in student achievement
De la Roca, Jorge; Thiemann, Petra - 2024
city-size gradient in test score inequality. Assortativeness is strongest in the high-income neighborhoods of large cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045986
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Grand advantage: Family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden
Hällsten, Martin; Pfeffer, Fabian T. - 2017
findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039324
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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system
Rendall, Michelle; Weiss, Franziska J. - 2014
This paper studies the effects of the apprenticeship system on innovation and labor market polarization. A stylized model with two key features is developed: (1) apprentices are more productive due to industry-specific training, but (2) from the firm's perspective, when training apprentices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282475
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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden
Forsberg, Erika; Khan, Akib; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024
Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070322
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No evidence that siblings' gender affects personality across nine countries
Dudek, Thomas; Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Feld, Jan; Rohrer, … - 2022
Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive … analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative …, China, and Indonesia). We investigated the personality traits risk tolerance, trust, patience, locus of control, and the Big …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164127