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Intergenerational Mobility in Australia [PDF]
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007 Abstract Combining four surveys conducted over a forty year period, I calculate intergenerational earnings elasticities for Australia, using predicted earnings in parents' occupations as a proxy for actual parental earnings. In the most recent survey, the elasticity of sons' wages with respect to fathers' wages is around 0.2.
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 We propose an alternative method for measuring intergenerational mobility. Measurements obtained from traditional methods (based on panel data) are scarce, difficult to compare across countries and almost impossible to get across time. In particular, this means that we do not know how intergenerational mobility is correlated with growth, income or the ...
Maia Güell +6 more
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Myth or Reality? Mobility Trends among Recent Graduates of Different Fields of Study
Central European Journal of Educational Research, 2023 The paper focuses on the intergenerational mobility processes in Hungarian higher education over the past decade. Its purpose is to explore these processes and to analyse the differences between the fields of study.
Mihály Fónai, Viktória Lánczi
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Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain [PDF]
, 2004 This paper flatly contradicts the common view that anyone can make it in modern Britain. Indeed, rather then weakening, the link between an individual's earnings and those of his or her parents has strengthened. An important part of the explanation is that the expansion of higher education has benefited people from rich families much more than those ...
Gregg, PA +3 more
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Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
, 2017 Using newly collected cross-country survey and experimental data, we investigate how beliefs about intergenerational mobility affect preferences for redistribution in five countries: France, Italy, Sweden, U.K., and U.S..
A. Alesina +2 more
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The effect of cash transfer programs on educational mobility. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 In this paper I develop a model to reproduce the phenomenon of high intergenerational correlations in education observed in Latin American Countries. The model is based on empirical evidence and implemented through agent based modeling techniques.
Florian Chávez-Juárez
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The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility I: Childhood Exposure Effects
, 2016 We show that the neighborhoods in which children grow up shape their earnings, college attendance rates, and fertility and marriage patterns by studying more than seven million families who move across commuting zones and counties in the U.S.
Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren
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Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 The intergenerational transmission of education from parents to children is an important indicator of societal inclusiveness and educational inequality.
Sharron Xuanren Wang, Arthur Sakamoto
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Educational reproduction in Sweden: A replication of Skopek and Leopold 2020 using Swedish data
Demographic Research, 2023 Background: Intergenerational social mobility, or the inheritance of status characteristics, is well-studied in Sweden. However, it accounts for just one aspect of the process of intergenerational reproduction of social inequality.
Vanessa Wittemann
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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016 We examine the themes of equal opportunity, intergenerational mobility, and inequality. We address the normative and definitional questions of selecting measures of mobility and summarize the current state of intergenerational mobility in the United ...
Isabel V. Sawhill, Richard V. Reeves
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