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Intergenerational mobility, human capital accumulation, and growth in India

Weide, Roy van der; Vigh, Melinda - 2018

Productivity and socio-economic progress are inter-connected. Economic growth funds policies that promote socio-economic progress, while the latter serves as a growth engine. A society with high mobility is one where individual achievements are influenced less by the individual’s parents and...

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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility

Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019

The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...

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Whose intergenerational mobility? : a new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation

Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2022

Various scholars have estimated levels of intergenerational mobility in OECD countries. Fewer estimates are available for developing countries, where mobility arguably matters more due to starker differences in living standards. This paper presents new estimates of mobility for a developing...

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Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility? : evidence from Cameroon

Fontep, Rose; Sen, Kunal - 2020

mobility, and that public policies need to alleviate the inequality of opportunity faced by women relative to men. The results …

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Colonial origin, ethnicity, and intergeneration mobility in Africa

Funjika, Patricia; Getachew, Yoseph Yilma - 2019

This paper estimates the relationship between differences in skills measured among within-country ethnic groups and individual human capital accumulation in eight African countries. Our results show that the skills of an individual in these countries depends more on the human capital levels of...

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Returns to education, intergenerational mobility, and inequality trends in Brazil

Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Bonomo, Tiago - 2018

of individual labour income inequality between 1996 and 2014. Coincidentally, in the Brazilian National Household Sample …

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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies

Clark, Gregory - 2020

In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...

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Economic approach to intergenerational mobility : measures, methods, and challenges in developing countries

Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2019

This paper provides a critical survey and synthesis of the recent economic literature on intergenerational mobility in developing countries, with a focus on data and methodological challenges. The attenuation due to measurement error is compounded by sample truncation resulting from co-residency...

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Can "good" social mobility news be "bad" and vice versa? : measurement (and downward mobility) pitfalls

Iversen, Vegard - 2020

Limited attention has been paid to how well social mobility measures debated and used to study industrial countries perform in analysis of low-income settings. Following brief, selective reviews of the axiomatic and econometric literatures, three mobility concepts illustrate how properties that...

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Social mobility and inequality between groups

Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020

The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention … has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality … between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not only is persistence in horizontal inequality due to low …

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