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The Channels of Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality : A Cross-Country Comparison
Franzini, Maurizio - 2013
account the attainment got in the previous step. We compare 8 EU countries – Germany, France, Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077019
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Intergenerational Mobility, Gender Differences and the Role of Out-Migration : New Evidence from Spain
Soria-Espin, Javier - 2022
This paper provides the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility in Spain based on rich administrative data … linking millions of parents and children through tax returns. Four main results arise. First, Spain is located somewhere in … or Italy. Second, geographical variation in mobility rates is high in Spain but smaller than in other compared countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084322
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Intergenerational Correlations in Labor Market Status : A Comparison of the United States and Germany
Couch, Kenneth A.; Dunn, Thomas A. - 1998
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-economic Panel to calculate comparable measures of intergenerational correlations of earnings, hours and education in the United States and in Germany. Our results indicate that there is remarkable similarity across the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014102936
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Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada
Tu, Jiong - 2010
This paper examines the effectiveness of Canadian immigration policy by analyzing the differences in the returns to education between first, second and third generation immigrant men. Regression results indicate that the second generation with high school education and lower do not earn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139041
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834
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The labor market consequences of impatience : some people would be happier if they were required to stay in school longer or search harder for a job while unemployed
Cadena, Brian C. - 2016
Standard economic theory suggests that individuals know best how to make themselves happy. Thus, policies designed to encourage "better" behaviors will only reduce people's happiness. Recently, however, economists have explored the role of impatience, especially difficulties with delaying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434104
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Effects on Wage and Employment after Implementation of Social Security Norms in the Agricultural Labour Market
Kundu, Amit - 2009
who are unorganized in nature in such a time when cultivation is not very profitable and employment generations in the … agricultural sector are declining. This paper is a theoretical attempt to identify the impact on agricultural employment and … social security norm including higher minimum wage not only decreases the overall employment generation in the agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214265
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Does formal employment equal quality employment in Chile?
Durán S., Gonzalo - 2022
question: Does formal employment equal quality employment?. Working with the Socioeconomic Characterization Survey of Chile … improvements in formalization, means quality employment. In particular, given the unregulated nature of the labor market, Chile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308263
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Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation
Engdahl, Mattias - 2019
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894052
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973131