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Ethnicity and human capital accumulation in urban Mexico

Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - 2008

This study analyzes social mobility and human capital accumulation among ethnic minorities in Mexican urban areas, exploring changes in educational attainment and labor market status and using panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MFxLS). The results indicate important ethnic...

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Grand advantage: Family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden

Hällsten, Martin; Pfeffer, Fabian T. - 2017

findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …

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Bias in social mobility estimates with historical data: Evidence from Swiss microdata

Favre, Giacomin - 2019

This paper explores a variety of potential issues one has to address when estimating intergenerational mobility with historical data. Many studies are potentially affected by bias originating from individuals emigrating and thus dropping out of the sample, missing information on the life-cycle,...

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Intergenerational mobility in the 19th century: Micro-level evidence from the city of Zurich

Favre, Giacomin; Floris, Joël; Woitek, Ulrich - 2018

We analyze social mobility of decennial citizenry cohorts of Zurich born between 1780 and 1870. We categorize individuals according to their occupations and use different measures to show the level, change, and components of intergenerational mobility. Mobility was imperfect and weakly...

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Social mobility at the top: Why are elites self-reproducing?

Brezis, Elise S.; Hellier, Joël - 2013

Curve relating social mobility to inequality. …

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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? : A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass ceiling highlights the belief that the...

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Early life environment and racial inequality in education and earnings in the United States

Chay, Kenneth Y.; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2014

earnings gaps match those in early life health and test scores already established. It also addresses caveats in the earlier … relative increase in the probability of blacks going to college; and ii) a similar convergence in relative earnings that is … variation in racial convergence across birth states matches the patterns in the earlier study. The magnitude of the earnings …

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Nonparametric analysis of intergenerational income mobility with application to the United States

Bhattacharya, Debopam; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2010

the relationship between the incomes of parents and future earnings of their children. We focus on two different measures …

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Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies in Latin America

Birdsall, Nancy; Behrman, Jere R.; Székely, Miguel - 1998

The effects of market and policy reforms on poverty and inequality in Latin America have been of considerable concern …

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Sibling Correlations and Social Mobility in Latin America

Gaviria, Alejandro; Dahan, Momi - 1999

In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two distinct types of correlations: intergenerational correlations and sibling correlations.

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