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Social mobility - the extent to which social and economic position in adulthood is facilitated or constrained by family … together to study trends in social mobility in England and Wales, in three post-war generations, using linked Decennial Census … data. We estimate rates of occupational social class mobility by sex and region of origin. Our findings show considerable …
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-productive assets, and residence status. Next, we evaluate individuals' socioeconomic mobility over time and across generations as a …
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, workers are unlikely to be fully mobile since there are barriers to sectoral and geographical mobility due to social reasons …-specific differences regarding geographical mobility in Ghana. Using survey data from the 2017 Ghana Living Standard Survey, we find that … shocks than Ghanaian women. While we cannot infer from this evidence what determines the differences in geographical mobility …
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internationally comparable indicators to assess the level of professional development and mobility of doctorate holders. The first …
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mobility between the two countries. The main conclusions are: 1) the percentage of employment of doctors in the U.S. is … earnings their Canadian colleagues; 3) an intense mobility of PhDs takes place between Canada and the USA; 4) in Canada … increased over 1990 despite their considerable labor mobility. Possible explanations: a difference in the quality of training of …
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-induced restrictions to mobility. To identify the effects we exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was … exogenous to local labor market conditions. These barriers to mobility have a significant negative effect on employment, wages … are driven mainly by checkpoints and only a tiny portion of the effects is due to direct restrictions on workers' mobility …
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The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility … levels of mobility between neighbourhood types are low and opportunities to move to more socio-economically advantaged … of the most liberal and market oriented countries, we find high levels of mobility, but these reproduce segregation …
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market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income …
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The efficient mobility of goods and labour is one of the most important features of a functioning economy. Using data …-induced restrictions to mobility. These restrictions operated through a system of checkpoints, roadblocks and other barriers installed by … barriers to mobility have had a significant negative effect on employment, wages and days worked per month. Wages are most …
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In this paper we study how the determinants of regional commuting in Italy have evolved in the past fifteen years. Using labour force data from 1992 to 2008 we estimate a model where the probability of commuting is regressed on a wide set of individual, job, firm and regional characteristics....
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