stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …

to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support …This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …

income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme … characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity) and family background (household characteristics and parental education). We handle and … education level determination in Bolivia. However, we also evidence that within ten years the conditioning of income to those …

correlation of permanent earnings into family and community effects allowing for life-cycle dynamics; finding that family is the … accounts for the joint earnings dynamics of siblings and youth community peers. We are the first to decompose the sibling … most important factor influencing earnings inequality over the life cycle. Community background explains a substantial …

scores and hourly wages, with refugees having the lowest. The wage returns to these basic skills are economically significant … literacy and numeracy skills, and the economic returns to these skills, for Canadian immigrants and non-immigrants. The novelty … compared to those born in Canada, although young immigrants do outperform adult immigrants. Similar results are found for wages …

personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children …

underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we … estimate the relative importance of the transmission of financial resources and endowments within a family. Although the … instrumenting the transmission channels. Whereas a family’s financial resources and endowments almost equally contribute to the …

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 …