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Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status … market position at the time of immigration, but are also able to reach their original occupational status much faster than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271830
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Occupational mobility of immigrants in a low skilled economy: The Spanish case
Simón, Hipólito; Ramos, Raul; Sanromá, Esteban - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278443
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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy : The Spanish Case
Simon, Hipolito - 2011
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127919
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Occupational mobility of ethnic migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status … market position at the time of immigration, but are also able to reach their original occupational status much faster than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313953
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Complements or substitutes? : task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Rica, Sara de la - 2009
Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. -- Immigration ; gender ; task … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879381
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Social mobility in Germany
Dodin, Majed; Findeisen, Sebastian; Henkel, Lukas; … - 2021
We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Our measure of educational attainment is the A-Level degree, a requirement for access to university. A 10 percentile increase in the parental income rank is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190822
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268204
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The intergenerational transmission of teaching
Jacinto, Alberto; Gershenson, Seth - 2019
Parental influences, particularly parents' occupations, may influence individuals' entry into the teaching profession. Importantly, this mechanism may explain the relatively static demographic composition of the teaching force over time. We assess the role of parental influences on occupational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011989050
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Intergenerational mobility : an assessment for Latin American countries
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco; Yavuz, Hasan … - 2019
This paper aims to study the process of intergenerational income mobility in some Latin American economies (Panama and Brazil), which have been much neglected in the existing literature. Like other countries in the area, also Brazil and Panama have a stagnant economy coupled with high income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003791
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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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