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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
intergenerationally transmitted to their offspring using the latest round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey. Findings indicate that … intergenerational linkages are important in Ghana; specifically, the results show a positive significant influence of parents … prestigious occupations in Ghana are more likely to be employed in similar occupations themselves. In order to bridge the gap in …
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Labour and migration in rural Vietnam
Narciso, Gaia - 2015
that remittances and migration act as a shock-coping mechanism, especially in the presence of natural shocks. Remittance …
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Does migration affect education of girls and young women in Tajikistan?
Gatskova, Kseniia; Ivlevs, Artjoms; Dietz, Barbara - 2017
remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration … and remittances have no effect. Having a grandmother as the head of household after parents (typically fathers) migrate …
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Is it what you inherited or what you learnt? : intergenerational linkage and interpersonal inequality in Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Van de Walle, Dominique - 2011
Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, we study the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and parental background as influences on an adult's economic welfare and economic activities. While intergenerational linkages are evident, we...
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Stability and vulnerability of the Latin American middle class
Torche, Florencia; López-Calva, Luis F. - 2012
Using panel datasets from Mexico and Chile for the 2000s, we examine the determinants of middle-class intra-generational mobility. We define the middle class by means of a latent index of economic wellbeing that is less sensitive to short-term fluctuation and measurement error than standard...
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How close does the apple fall to the tree? : some evidence on intergenerational occupational mobility from India
Motiram, Sripad; Singh, Ashish - 2012
Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) 2005, we examine intergenerational occupational mobility in India, an issue on which very few systematic and rigorous studies exist. We group individuals into classes and document patterns of mobility at the rural, urban and all-India...
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Health shocks and the intergenerational transmission of inequality : evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Dhanaraj, Sowmya - 2015
This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in children thereby reducing their future earnings, and...
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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
We examine the intergenerational mobility of women relative to men, using paired mother-daughter and father-son data on occupation and education for Cameroon. We find that both in occupation and education, intergenerational mobility is higher for sons than for daughters. The intergenerational...
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Regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in Ethiopia : a tale of two periods
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2017
This paper provides an informative picture of the extent of regional inequality of economic outcomes and opportunities in the pre-and post-reform Ethiopia. We start by presenting evidence that regional inequality in educational attainment, formal employment, and access to safe water and...
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