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The intergenerational transmission of human capital and earnings in contemporary Russia

Borisov, Gleb V.; Pissaridēs, Christophoros A. - 2016

We make use of longitudinal data for the Russian economy over 1994-2013 to obtain earnings and education information about parents and children. We estimate the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment and earning capacity and find high intergenerational correlation of earnings...

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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States

Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017

Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we estimate the relative importance of the...

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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 253-268

Overqualification signals a mismatch between jobs’ educational requirements and workers’ qualifications implying …Ein Mismatch zwischen den Anforderungen einer beruflichen Beschäftigung und den Fähigkeiten eines Arbeitnehmers kann … ausreichend genutzt wird. Überqualifikation beschreibt eine entsprechende Situation in der ein Mismatch vorliegt, weil die …

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Birth order and social outcomes, England, 1680-2024

Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024

Children early in the birth order get more parental care than later children. Does this significantly affect their life chances? An extensive genealogy of 428,280 English people 1680-2024, with substantial sets of complete families, suggests that birth order had little effect on social outcomes...

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Immigrant overeducation across generations : the role of gender and part-time work

Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2024

A large body of literature shows that first-generation immigrants born in developing countries experience a higher likelihood of being overeducated than natives (i.e. immigrant overeducation). However, evidence is remarkably scarce when it comes to the overeducation of second-generation...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital and Earnings in Contemporary Russia

Borisov, Gleb - 2016

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Overeducation and economic mobility

Markussen, Simen; Nareklishvili, Maria; Røed, Knut - 2024

We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five empirical facts that together point in this direction: •...

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Family background, education, and earnings : the limited value of "test-score transmission"

Friedman-Sokuler, Naomi; Justman, Moshe - 2024

Even the most egalitarian education systems employ high-stakes tests to regulate the transition from universal secondary education to selective academic programs that open doors to skilled, well-paid professions. This gives parents a strong incentive to invest substantial resources in improving...

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...

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Ability Matching and Occupational Choice

James, Jonathan - 2011

This paper develops and estimates an individual model of occupational choice and learning that allows for correlated learning across occupation-specific abilities. As an individual learns about their occupation-specific ability in one occupation, this experience will be broadly informative about...

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