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Determinants and perceptions of social mobility in Poland, 1992 - 2008
Sokołowska, Katarzyna - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 89-102
The purpose of this article is to analyse the factors affecting social mobility in Poland, based on results obtained from the estimation of logit models for the years 1992 - 2008 as well as from interviews asking about the necessary conditions to achieve success in life. Data used in this work...
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Intergenerational transmission of spousal inequality
Nguyen, Kieu-Dung - In: Estudios de economía 48 (2021) 1, pp. 5-33
This paper studies whether sons and daughters reproduce in their relationships the same intra-household inequalities observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we emphasize the relevance of transmission of preference...
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Are we there yet? : intergenerational mobility and economic assimilation of second-generation immigrants in Estonia
Kivi, Laura Helena; Järve, Janno; Anspal, Sten; … - In: Baltic journal of economics 21 (2021) 2, pp. 157-182
This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia. A rich registry dataset on yearly earnings and different background characteristics for the period of 2007-2017 is used. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent...
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On intergenerational (im)mobility in Latin America
Daudel, Christian; Robano, Virginia - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 24 (2015), pp. 1-29
This paper studies intergenerational mobility in Latin America and shows that, in addition to the well-documented fact that the Latin American income distribution is highly unequal, profound differences in opportunities persist from one generation to the next. Comparing final educational...
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Intergenerational mobility : measurement and the role of borrowing constraints and inherited tastes
Caballé, Jordi - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 7 (2016) 4, pp. 393-420
In this paper, I present some popular measures of mobility in economic outcomes within a family across generations. I also discuss two of the most important factors preventing intergenerational mobility: existence of financially constrained individuals and transmission of tastes from parents to...
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Chapter 25. Patent Statistics as an Innovation Indicator
Nagaoka, Sadao; Motohashi, Kazuyuki; Goto, Akira - 2010
This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …
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Business spending on research and development and its relationship to invention and innovation
Hunady, Jan; Pisar, Peter - In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch … 6 (2020) 1, pp. 542-552
invention or innovation cannot be guaranteed. Our main aim is to examine the relationship between business R&D expenditure …, invention and innovation in the long-run. We also examine the level of business R&D expenditure in EU countries. The long …The paper deals with the problem of business spending on research and development and their relation to innovation …
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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...
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Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender
Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-20
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of the investigation is a two-step estimation procedure, where we detect a significant...
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Does intergenerational mobility affect corporate innovation? : evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises
Wang, Jinchao; Luo, Changfu; Dong, Yanfang; Guo, Chu-yu - In: International review of economics & finance : IREF 91 (2024), pp. 526-538
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