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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
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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Gender bias and intergenerational educational mobility : theory and evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Jiang, Hanchen; Shilpi, Forhad Jahan - 2020 - This Version: March 15, 2020
We incorporate gender bias against girls in the family, the school and the labor market in amodel of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's educationbecause of credit market imperfections. Parents may underestimate a girl's ability, expect lowerreturns,...
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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014
intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408476
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471875
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2022 - This version: December 2022
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472300
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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality
Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - 2023
This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282841
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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States
Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017
Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we estimate the relative importance of the...
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Are estimates of intergenerational mobility biased by non-response? : evidence from the Netherlands
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Hirsch, Stefa - 2018
Intergenerational mobility is often studied using survey data. In such settings, selective unit or item non-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective responses bias the estimated relationship between parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869114
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On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2021
nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association … between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education …
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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995
Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023
regular siblings explain 33 percent of the variance in educational attainment between individuals, with parental education … factors that do not correlate with parental education. Strikingly, despite pervasive changes in the distribution of … be roughly stable across cohorts. Despite a reduction in overall education inequality, we conclude that family background …
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