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. We argue that parts of this inequality result from a trade-off between occupational and regional mobility. Both mobility … contributes to wage inequality. We expect these mechanisms to become more pronounced in the future as technological and …
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This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to highlight the role of human capital accumulation of agents differentiated by skill type in the joint determination of social mobility and the skill premium. We first show that our model captures the empirical co-movement of the skill...
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development, but it is still not clear whether parents respond to changes across time in their child's skills and health. Using … endogeneity issues, we find that parents reinforce for differences in their child's socio-emotional skills, compensate for changes … in her physical health, and are neutral to variation in her cognitive skills. …
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looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the university participation of this disadvantaged group in England. We find … levels of non-cognitive skills, specifically locus of control, academic self-concept, work ethic, and self-esteem, in … non-cognitive skills helps potential first in family university students to compensate for their relative disadvantage …
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looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the university participation of this disadvantaged group in England. We find … levels of non-cognitive skills, specifically locus of control, academic self-concept, work ethic, and self-esteem, in … non-cognitive skills helps potential first in family university students to compensate for their relative disadvantage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886556
A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
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The paper investigates the short-run job mobility of educationally mismatched workers, examining the validity of the Sicherman-Galor hypothesis, which predicts that overeducation is a temporary condition from a worker's perspective associated with higher upward occupational and wage mobility....
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This paper revisits the link between education-based marriage market sorting and income inequality. Leveraging Danish … ambition over time, which explains more than 40% of increasing inequality since 1980. In contrast, sorting trends are flat with … conclusions about the role of marital sorting in rising income inequality. …
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We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
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We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534327