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Circumstances and determination of individual outcomes in Bolivia : family background and equality of opportunities (2003-2013)
Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro; Villegas Quino, Horacio - 2016
We analyze the effect of some circumstances, i.e. exogenously determined individual characteristics, over individual income and likewise over achieved years of education. Gathering information for Bolivia and applying the theoretical scheme of Equality of Opportunity, this paper identifies as...
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Accounting for Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in France over the 20th Century : Method and Estimations
Garbinti, Bertrand - 2020
We propose a new and simple method to study intergenerational wealth correlation between two generations, which is easy … to implement in wealth (and housing) surveys and aims at overcoming the strong data limitation faced in most of the … countries. We show that the ownership of housing assets can be used to proxy for three wealth groups for all cohorts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827500
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Equality of opportunity : East vs. West Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
The case of German reunification has been subject to extensive research on earnings inequality and labor market integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990.Using German micro data, we empirically analyze how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391647
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The effects of father's worklessness on young adults in the UK
Zwysen, Wouter - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 2, pp. 1-15
Using the United Kingdom household longitudinal study (UKHLS), this paper shows the effect of experiencing a father being out of work on a range of labour market outcomes as young adults. Children of non-working fathers work less and are less satisfied while working despite similar wages and...
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2015 - This version: July 2015
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318033
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What if you had been less fortunate : the effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes
Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - 2013
This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204499
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544273
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On the origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from sibling correlations
Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sol, Joeri; Praag, Mirjam van; … - 2016
Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at a young age by factors that are unrelated to current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551917
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016 - This version: March 24, 2016
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457886
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Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background : evidence from sibling correlations
Anger, Silke; Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2016
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458933