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increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …
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increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support the notion … stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472300
access increases both skill sorting in couples and skill and earnings inequality among their children. All findings support … to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282841
This paper studies whether sons and daughters reproduce in their relationships the same intra-household inequalities observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we emphasize the relevance of transmission of preference...
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The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among …, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714448
The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among …, on average. This pattern seems to be driven by the high upward mobility of children from low-educated families; at the … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698232
income inequality might lead to a lower investment in human capital among children from socially vulnerable households. The … mobility and income inequality. In this sense, this work presents empirical evidence for the existence of the "Great Gatsby … paper delivers robust and compelling results showing that children born into families where the parents have not completed …
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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,...
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This paper investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of partners' "potential" earnings affects intergenerational earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under...
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting procedure that considers the participation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671883