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The name says it all : multigenerational social mobility in Switzerland, 1550-2019
Häner, Melanie; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2021
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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COVID-19 and educational inequality : how school closures affect low- and high-achieving students
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2021
In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...
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The impact of Covid-19 related school policies on students in their final high school years
Sandner, Malte; Anger, Silke; Bernhard, Sarah; … - 2021
This paper sheds light on the impact of the COVID-19 policy measures on a wide set of career expectations, occupational beliefs, and well-being of high-school students in their final grades. For this purpose, we use a unique panel data collection, which surveyed around 6,000 students in their...
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Allocating collective expenditure : the case of education
Riedel, Lukas; Stichnoth, Holger - 2021
Creating distributional national accounts (DINA; e.g. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018) requires the allocation of all government expenditure to individuals in order to compute their post-tax, post-transfer income. A sizeable part of government expenditure is in-kind spending, either in the form of...
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Compulsory schooling and geographic distribution on voluntary education
Filiztekin, Alpay; Karahasan, Burhan Can - 2015
Compulsory schooling increases average level of education in a country and provides other benefits, its effect on geographical distribution is, however, not obvious. We explore the effect of a sudden change in compulsory schooling in Turkey, that increased mandatory years of schooling from five...
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Education and tax policies in the presence of informality
Tkhir, Anna-Mariia - 2021
I study the effect of refugees' protection status on labor market outcomes focusing on a recent cohort of Syrian and Iraqi refugees entering Germany between 2013 and 2016. My empirical analysis exploits a sudden and unpredictable change in the assessment of the Federal Agency responsible for...
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Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? : a field experiment to improve labor-market prospects
Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2021
We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of schoolattending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents'...
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Spatial and social mobility
Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2015 - This version: February 28, 2015, preliminary and incomplete
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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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2019
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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A joint theory of polarization and deunionization
Foll, Tobias; Hartmann, Anna - 2019
polarization and the increasing income inequality. …
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