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Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: moving out to move on?
Buscha, Franz; Gorman, Emma; Sturgis, Patrick - 2020
Social mobility - the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family origins - has taken an increasingly prominent role in public and policy discourse. Recent studies have documented that not only who your parents are, but also where you grow...
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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities
Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016
society, and this can lead to social unrest. Increasing inequality and socio-economic segregation is therefore a major concern … for local and national governments. Socio-economic segregation is the outcome of a combination of inequality and poverty …Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and …
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Immobile Australia : surnames show strong status persistence, 1870-2017
Clark, Gregory; Leigh, Andrew; Pottenger, Mike - 2017
The paper paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870-2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status information includes occupations from electoral rolls, and records of degrees awarded by Melbourne and Sydney universities. Status persistence was strong throughout, with an...
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Immobile Australia : surnames show strong status persistence, 1870-2017
Clark, Gregory; Leigh, Andrew; Pottenger, Mike - 2017
The paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870–2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status information includes occupations from electoral rolls 1903-1980, and records of degrees awarded by Melbourne and Sydney universities 1852-2017. Status persistence was strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732056
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Location Matters : Historical Racial Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility
Andrews, Rodney - 2017
This paper explores historical patterns of racial segregation and its relationship with the observed spatial variation … Opportunity Project with a novel measure of racial segregation developed in Logan and Parman (forthcoming) and find that past … racial segregation explains a significant portion of the spatial variation in intergenerational mobility. These findings are …
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New estimates of intergenerational mobility in Australia
Mendolia, Silvia; Siminski, Peter - 2015
-sectional inequality. …
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2016
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440819
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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459537
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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Income inequality, equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility
Corak, Miles - 2013
Families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child's opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background. Cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers will most likely lower the degree of...
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