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Social mobility is a key element of meritocratic societies. We analyze multigenerational social mobility with a hand-collected yearly Swiss dataset from 1550 to 2019. With our surname-based approach, we measure the Swiss society's overall permeability over more than 450 years. Furthermore, we...
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We investigate the difference in homeownership rate between natives and immigrants as well as its evolution in France …. stayers), we show that returns of characteristics change in favor of immigrants consistently with better integration and this … is particularly true for South Europeans. Moreover, for immigrants, entries on the territory have a large negative effect …
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Are children better off than their parents? This highly debated question in politics and economics is investigated by analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for...
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. Specifically, I incorporate the task framework into an overlapping generations model, which models education choice as a function …
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and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees …, labor-, family- and education-immigrants and Nordic immigrants with special focus on those who do not move domestically … immigrants' reason for immigration. Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or education is mostly to be found among …
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to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience …. However, while there is a wide support in the empirical literature of the positive impacts of education and experience on … effects is that education, experience, health and wages are interrelated. To deal with these issues, we implement an Efficient …
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education would have recovered quickly, and especially for the scenario in which the crisis persisted for a longer period … (several months), and in this case the solutions should provide equal access to education for all children and young people. We … world, including Romania. On the long term, this action has had, and will continue to have negative effects on education …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education in Romania and worldwide. Radical measures have been … necessary in the field of education, to limit the spread of the virus (like in all the fields affected by the pandemic). One of … these measures - the closure of schools, universities and other education institutions and the shift to online learning …
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Economic growth varies substantially across regions and over time. This paper shows that economic growth in a person's birth place is an important determinant for wealth in adulthood. We exploit a new dataset that oversamples wealthy individuals in Germany and includes information on birth...
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immigrants from a particular country spur exports to and imports from that destination. Chaney (2008) shows that a decrease in … regions with a larger number of immigrants from that country. I conclude that migrants mainly reduce fixed costs of exporting. …
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