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Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by … analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born …
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Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by … analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919636
Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life …
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Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …
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being out of work on a range of labour market outcomes as young adults. Children of non-working fathers work less and are …
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We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
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comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children's choices of STEM fields. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276960
comparative advantages in math of parents are significantly linked to those of their children. A causal interpretation follows … from a novel IV estimation that isolates variation in parent skill advantages due to their teacher and classroom peer … quality. Finally, we show the strong influence of family skill transmission on children’s choices of STEM fields. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014283095
We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...
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