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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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host country. Motivated by the critical age hypothesis, we identify the causal effects of English skills on socioeconomic … English skills.We also find that acquiring better English-language skills improves the educational attainment and labor and …
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host country. Motivated by the critical age hypothesis, we identify the causal effects of English skills on socioeconomic … English skills. We also find that acquiring better English-language skills improves the educational attainment and labor and …
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In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in England declined sharply and differentially by...
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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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In this paper we use linked census data to assess whether an academically selective schooling system promotes social mobility, using England as a case study. Over a period of two decades, the share of pupils in academically selective schools in England declined sharply and differentially by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255778
Five years ago, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson made "levelling up" a central plank of the Conservative Party's bid for re-election, with a manifesto pledge to "level up every part of the UK". In 2022, the government published a thorough and ambitious White Paper setting out 12 levelling up...
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To the extent that families' fertility decisions respond to economic factors, the price of housing is an important and relatively neglected candidate for consideration in fertility decisions. In theory, the effect of changes in housing prices on family size will depend on the quantity of housing...
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