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Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet … personality traits, including three that are positively associated with wages; Individuals with high own or parental education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239166
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The education-health gradient : revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette - 2023
-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311689
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The education-health gradient : revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette - 2023
-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and …. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313664
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879620
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166025
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Intergenerational trends in educational and income mobility in the United States of America since the 1960s
Ernst, Ekkehard; Langot, François; Merola, Rossana; … - 2024
Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507194
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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280839
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511571