This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on … risk taking fathers have a significantly higher educational mobility and persistently higher income mobility than peers … with risk averse fathers. They obtain significantly higher levels of education, which would be justified by modest evidence …

by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions … their careers, while job mobility is important for workers who acquire skills in an apprenticeship scheme before labor …

the nature of skills supplied by the education sector and the skills demanded by employers. A greater role for youth …. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also … student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between …

modelling of both cases is proposed for two types of educational decisions, one based on the family expenditure on education and …We review the economic literature on the impacts of the several dimensions of education upon intergenerational … inequality persistency. It is firstly outlined that the critical increase in the population education level in all countries has …

, with each chapter addressing a different determinant: individual characteristics (Chapter 2), family background (Chapter 3 …), teacher characteristics (Chapter 4), and education system (Chapter 5). …

correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … distribution. Nevertheless, a considerable portion of children's education still depends on family background. Children from poor … education, should target the offspring of educationally deprived parents. …

and education in the transmission of economic status across generations. Potential changes are identified using a … the most recent cohort while education plays a substantially larger role. The first finding results from a smaller effect … of children's ability on status and a reduced correlation between parental status and children's ability. The second …

achievements between immigrants and natives. However, we find that the children of Italian immigrants exhibit fairly high … intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …

the correlation between parents' and children's schooling got stronger, further increasing over the period of transition. …