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income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …-skilled workers. A larger productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative … and residences and an exclusively residential suburban area. The paper demonstrates that both segregation and regional …
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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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In this paper we present and confront the expected outcome of an increase in risk on the regional or sectoral allocation of labor force and employment. The basic frameworks are the benchmark dualistic scenarios. A single-input analysis of a homogeneous product economy is provided. Uncertainty is...
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This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status across six new harmonized surveys from three Arab countries: Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). We link individuals'...
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This study examines intragenerational and intergenerational mobility of employment and income in Viet Nam during 2004-2008 and 2010-2014. It finds rather high mobility across income quintiles. There was high mobility of individuals by occupational skills but less mobility by employment status...
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It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their relative income is low. In this paper we study this...
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Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that social mobility decreases the closer one gets to the extreme top of the income distribution. We study the occupational mobility for an extreme elite group in society: the CEOs of...
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. We argue that parts of this inequality result from a trade-off between occupational and regional mobility. Both mobility … contributes to wage inequality. We expect these mechanisms to become more pronounced in the future as technological and …
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This paper provides comprehensive cross-country evidence on the relationship between earnings inequality and intra … countries. On average across countries, about 25% of earnings inequality in a given year evens out over the life cycle as a … result of mobility. Moreover, mobility is not systematically higher in countries with more earnings inequality in general …
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