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series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
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series for several indexes of relative and absolute intergenerational education mobility for 18 Latin American countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698232
Canada. At the same time, returns to education have gone up. Both factors have contributed to exacerbating income gaps … between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income … education. Overall, these patterns suggest that fostering high school completion may help slow down the worsening of …
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in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coefficient is less biased than the regression …
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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
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intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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This paper investigates trends in intergenerational transmission of education among black South Africans - changes in … correlation between parents' and children's education. Using data for 1954-1993 birth cohorts, we find a decrease in … intergenerational transmission of education over the last four decades. The decline is strongest in the lower tail of the educational …
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This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the economic outcomes …, our results reveal a significant role of education in this intergenerational transmission. These results are particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959042
This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
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