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The dynamics of asymmetry among fertility, income inequality and financial development in Bangladesh

Husain, Humaira - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9

income inequality in Bangladesh utilizing annual data from 1984-2019. We employ both linear and non- linear autoregressive … income inequality under assumptions of symmetric and asymmetric relationships between fertility and each of the control … development. However, there exists no significant short run and long- run asymmetries between fertility and Inequality. Families …

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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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The PISA shock, socioeconomic inequality, and school reforms in Germany

Davoli, Maddalena; Entorf, Horst - 2018

In Germany, the poor performance in PISA 2000 stimulated a heated public debate and a strong policy response. The government reacted to the low average and remarkable disparities registered by the test, and spurred reforms led to a significant improvement in the country fs educational...

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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...

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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

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Heterogenous latent factor models using horizontal kinship

Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2024

We reconstruct the genealogical tree of all individuals ever appearing in Dutch municipalities records since 1995. Using microdata from tax authorities, we compute a measure of their permanent earnings and assess the degree to which the intergenerational transmission process is heterogeneous....

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Labour market effects of wage inequality and skill-biased technical change in Germany

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between wage inequality and labour market development. Relevant economic theories … are ambiguous, just as public debates. We measure the effects of wage inequality, skill-biased and skill …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …

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Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects

Schinke, Christoph - 2016

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Technological diffusion and productivity convergence across European regions: a spatial approach over the period 2000-2015

Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2021

What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human capital across regions are hypothesized to be the major cause of differences in the speed by which following regions converge and catch-up with the most advanced ones. In addition,...

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Bargaining over a New Welfare State

Bonatti, Alessandro; Thomsson, Kaj - 2007

The goal of this paper is twofold: First, to develop an estimable model of legislative politics in the US Congress, second, to provide a greater understanding of the objectives behind the New Deal. In the theoretical model, the distribution of federal funds across regions of the country is the...

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