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socio-economic status in different inequality and segregation contexts in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands … the UK, which has long had high levels of social inequalities and high levels of socio-economic segregation, we find that … of the most liberal and market oriented countries, we find high levels of mobility, but these reproduce segregation …
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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919636
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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Greater levels of social mobility are widely seen as desirable on grounds of both equity and efficiency. Debate on social mobility in Britain and elsewhere has recently focused on specific factors that might hinder social mobility, including the role of internships and similar employment...
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We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who grew up in the lowest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in...
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. These patterns are likely, in turn, to exacerbate existing gradients in other dimensions of ethnicity-based inequality now …
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socio-economic status in different inequality and segregation contexts in four European countries: Sweden, the Netherlands … the UK, which has long had high levels of social inequalities and high levels of socio-economic segregation, we find that … of the most liberal and market oriented countries, we find high levels of mobility, but these reproduce segregation …
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.S.. -- intergenerational mobility ; earnings inequality ; long-run earnings …
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