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Intergenerational Economic Mobility and the Racial Wealth Gap
Robertson, Cassandra - 2020
A growing body of research documents the importance of wealth and the racial wealth gap in perpetuating inequality across generations. We add to this literature by examining the impact of wealth on child income by race, while also extending our analysis to three generations. Our two stage least...
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Measuring social mobility rates in earlier and less-documented societies
Clark, Gregory - 2020
In societies where surnames are inherited from parents, we can use these names to estimate rates of intergenerational mobility. This paper explains how to make such estimates, and illustrates their use in pre-industrial England and modern Chile and India. These surname estimates have the...
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Migrating for children's better future : intergenerational mobility of internal migrants' children in Indonesia
Fatimah, Alfariany Milati; Kofol, Chiara - 2019
Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 … million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration on the second … generation continue to be under-explored. This paper investigates the long-term impact of parents' migration on their children …
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Unequal gradients: sex, skin tone, and intergenerational economic mobility
Monroy-Gómez-Franco, Luis; Vélez Grajales, Roberto; … - 2023
We study how the intersection between skin tone and sex shapes intergenerational mobility of economic resources in Mexico. Using two recent social mobility surveys, we estimate the rank persistence and transition matrices by sex combined with skin tone groups. First, we find no differences in...
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Trust of second-generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-30
This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...
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Microsimulation projection of the educational integration and labour force participation of first- and second-generation immigrants
Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Spielauer, Martin; Fink, Marian - 2020
to population ageing and migration, the number and proportion of people with a migration background will increase … between the second generation of migrants with EU or EFTA backgrounds and people without a migration background, would have …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Culture Among Immigrants : Gender Gap in Education Among First and Second Generations
NoghaniBehambari, Hamid; Tavassoli, Nahid; Noghani, Farzaneh - 2021
This paper illustrates the intergenerational transmission of the gender gap in education among first and second-generation immigrants. Using the Current Population Survey (1994-2018), we find that the difference in female-male education persists from the home country to the new environment. A...
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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject of considerable research in the analysis of inequality. Such intergenerational linkages are anticipated to come from two sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and...
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Where credit is due : the relationship between family background and credit health
Goodman, Sarena; Henriques, Alice M.; Mezza, Alvaro - 2017
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The effects of China's higher education expansion on urban and rural intergenerational mobility
Duan, Yide; Zhang, Haotian; Wang, Wenfu; Ao, Xiaoyan - In: China economic review : an international journal 73 (2022), pp. 1-17
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