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The transmission of longevity across generations: The case of the settler Cape Colony
Piraino, Patrizio; Muller, Sean; Cilliers, Jeanne; … - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2013
The literature on parent-child correlations in socioeconomic status provides little evidence on long-term multigenerational dynamics. This is because most studies of intergenerational status persistence are based on two (at most three) successive generations. Our analysis adds to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010834040
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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and Political Preferences: Evidence from the BHPS
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Angelo, Emanuela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
The paper uses 18 waves of BHPS data to provide evidence of the roles of both own social status and upward mobility relative to one's parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting. Both own social status and greater mobility with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010722843
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Upward Social Mobility, Well-being and;Political Preferences: Evidence from the;BHPS
Clark, Andrew; D'ANGELO, EMANUELA - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2010
The paper uses 15 waves of BHPS data to provide an integrated analysis of the roles of both individual social status and upward mobility relative to own parents on job and life satisfaction, preferences for redistribution, pro-public sector attitudes and voting. Both greater individual social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008475746
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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
their interplay with income inequality. We identify a positive interaction of perceived social mobility that mitigates its … overall impact of income inequality that is SWB lowering, while for low social mobility the effect of inequality is positive …. These interactions hold stronger for pre-transfer than post-transfer income inequality. Actual social mobility appears to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061673
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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility: An Analysis for OECD countries.
Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
effects, particularly in their interplay with income inequality. We identify a positive interaction of perceived social … mobility that mitigates the overall SWB lowering effect of income inequality. In contrast to expectations, a high degree of … actual social mobility yields an overall impact of income inequality that is SWB lowering, while for low social mobility the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109561
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Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2000
Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738446
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Carvalho, Jean-Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676292
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Intergenerational transmission of education - Uncovering the mechanisms behind high intergenerational correlations
Juárez, Florian Wendelspiess Chávez - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
inequality of opportunity is present. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627587
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Mobility as Progressivity: Ranking Income Processes According to Equality of Opportunity
Bénabou, Roland; Ok, Efe A. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 2000
Interest in economic mobility stems largely from its perceived role as an equalizer of opportunities, though not necessarily of outcomes. In this paper we show that this view leads very naturally to a methodology for the measurement of social mobility which has strong parallels with the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150120
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The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics
Dvorkin, Maximiliano Ariel; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2015
We develop a dynamic labor search model where production and consumption take place in spatially distinct labor markets with varying exposure to domestic and international trade. The model recognizes the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and...
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