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Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2013
Families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child’s opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background. Cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers will most
Miles Corak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Where is the Land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States*

open access: yes, 2014
We use administrative records on the incomes of more than 40 million children and their parents to describe three features of intergenerational mobility in the United States. First, we characterize the joint distribution of parent and child income at the
Raj Chetty   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intergenerational educational mobility in Bangladesh.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
IntroductionSocial mobility is considered as an important indicator of the economic development of a country. However, it varies widely across geographical regions and social groups in developing countries like Bangladesh.
Mohammed Nazmul Huq   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shaping and reproduction patterns of power elites in former Yugoslavia I: Vertical mobility [PDF]

open access: yesSociologija, 2003
This work consists of two parts. In the first one are presented some general characteristics and are analyzed vertical social mobility of power elite's in Serbia and Croatia.
Miladinović Slobodan M.
doaj   +1 more source

How Much Scope for a Mobility Paradox? The Relationship between Social and Income Mobility in Sweden

open access: yesSociological Science, 2016
It is often pointed out that conclusions about intergenerational (parent–child) mobility can differ depending on whether we base them on studies of class or income.
Richard Breen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The geography of intergenerational social mobility in Britain

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Intergenerational preconditions and historical conferment of opportunity play a role in social mobility. This study considers the geography of relative deprivation to show how different family groups across Great Britain experience different ...
Paul A. Longley   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intergenerational mobility in Korea [PDF]

open access: yesIZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017
AbstractThis study investigates intergenerational earnings mobility in Korea for sons born between 1958 and 1973 and compares Korea’s mobility to that of other nations. It uses data from the Korea Labor and Income Panel Study and the Household Income and Expenditure Survey conducted by the Korean National Statistics Bureau.
openaire   +3 more sources

Inequality of Opportunity and Aggregate Economic Performance

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
Economists have developed an extensive literature examining the relationships between inequality of outcomes and growth, but few research papers have investigated the relationship between inequality of opportunity and growth.
Katharine Bradbury, Robert K. Triest
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Intergenerational Mobility on Msa Growth in the United States

open access: yesStudies in Business and Economics, 2020
This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and intergenerational mobility in the United States. Data from metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S.
Joseph Mauro
doaj   +1 more source

Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional on permanent income, education is maximized when income is balanced between the early childhood and middle childhood years.
Pedro Carneiro   +5 more
openaire   +8 more sources

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