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The Channels of Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : A Cross-Country Comparison
Franzini, Maurizio - 2013
account the attainment got in the previous step. We compare 8 EU countries – Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077019
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Intergenerational Mobility, Gender Differences and the Role of Out-Migration : New Evidence from Spain
Soria-Espin, Javier - 2022
This paper provides the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility in Spain based on rich administrative data … linking millions of parents and children through tax returns. Four main results arise. First, Spain is located somewhere in … or Italy. Second, geographical variation in mobility rates is high in Spain but smaller than in other compared countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084322
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Intergenerational Correlations in Labor Market Status : A Comparison of the United States and Germany
Couch, Kenneth A.; Dunn, Thomas A. - 1998
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-economic Panel to calculate comparable measures of intergenerational correlations of earnings, hours and education in the United States and in Germany. Our results indicate that there is remarkable similarity across the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102936
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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139041
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834
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Reassessing intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States : the impact of differences in lifecycle earnings patterns
Vogel, Thorsten (contributor) - 2006
Using longitudinal data on fathers and their children, this study compares the extent of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States and introduces an estimation strategy that corrects estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities for a possible lifecycle bias. In contrast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375779
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Intergenerational Mobility of Earnings and Income Among Sons and Daughters in Vietnam
Dang, Thang - 2015
In this paper, I investigate intergenerational mobility of earnings and income among sons and daughters in Vietnam. In particular, my objective is to estimate intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of sons' and daughters' individual earnings and individual income with respective to their fathers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021933
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Uncovering Gatsby curves
Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André; Garon, Jean-Denis; … - 2020
Empirical findings suggest a positive correlation between inequality and social immobility, a phenomenon coined the Gatsby curve. However, complete explanations of the phenomenon have not yet been proposed. This paper answers two questions: What are Gatsby curves? When do they exist? We build a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154893
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Process of Development
Maoz, Yishay; Moav, Omer - 2002
This paper offers an explanation for some evidence that intergenerational earnings mobility is higher in more developed economies and that mobility is positively correlated with wage equality. In the model mobility promotes economic growth via its effect on the accumulation and allocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110938
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Short- vs long-term intergenerational correlations of employment and self-employment in Europe
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2020
This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment … employment status of parents and that of their children. However, short-term correlation of self-employment seems to be driven …, estimates show a strong and significant correlation between respondents' self-employment status, and that of their parents when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164530