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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject …
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Smoothing or strengthening the "Great Gatsby curve"? : the intergenerational impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme
You, Jing; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2017
We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China’s New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth … observed individual heterogeneity. Overall, we find that the pension scheme smooths wealth dependence between generations in … the wealth portfolio. Complementary policy interventions, particularly for the poor across generations, would be needed to …
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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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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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Intergenerational mobility of education in Vietnam : evidence from the Vietnam War
Khoa Vu; Lo Bue, Maria C. - 2019
Vietnam's education system has recently attracted international attention for exceptional learning outcomes and success in improving schooling outcomes over a short period, despite being a lower-middle-income country. One potential explanation is the substantial increase in parental schooling...
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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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Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in Ghana
Ajayi, Kehinde; Anyidoho, Nana Akua - 2017
We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly proposed option for youth in economies with limited wage employment. Analysing survey data on 2,036 tertiary graduates in Ghana, we find that males have a stronger preference for...
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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017
With the second largest indigenous population by percentage in Latin America, Guatemala is an important case for understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics. This paper presents new analysis of survey data, allowing for consideration both of indigenous and ladino populations, as...
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