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Family background can influence offspring earnings in two ways: conditioning their educational attainments (indirect effect) and circumscribing their opportunities in the labour market, independently from their educational attainment (direct effect). In this paper, following a multi-steps...
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Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … income elasticity in the United States than in Germany and Great Britain, and country differences concerning the influence of …
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We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...
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Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....
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Based on nationally representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … determinants of intergenerational income mobility and the relative risk of poverty differ with respect to the existing welfare … income elasticity in the United States than in Germany and Great Britain, and country differences concerning the influence of …
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We compute rates of absolute upward income mobility for the 1960-1987 birth cohorts in eight countries in North America … above 70%. Decomposition analysis suggests that differences in the marginal income distributions, especially the amount of … cross-cohort income inequality, were the primary driver of differing mobility rates across countries. We also demonstrate …
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