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income inequality are negatively correlated with relative regional social mobility. In the model, segregation is driven by …, whereas regional income inequality also depends on the magnitude of the productivity gap of low-skilled workers. A larger … productivity gap does not affect segregation, but causes higher income inequality and lower relative mobility in the respective …
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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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It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self-reported happiness. This suggests that people who aim at increasing their happiness should try to find a better-paid job if their relative income is low. In this paper we study this...
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In this paper I investigate the causal relationship between labor market polarization and intergenerational mobility, two of the most important features of advanced labor markets in recent decades. The former relates to the disappearance of middle-wage routine jobs and the rise of both high- and...
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