Search Results - subject:"Income mobility"

Intergenerational mobility, education, and the skill premium : investigating optimal government cash transfers in China

Jiang, Wei; Wu, Jingwei - 2026

, with the objectives of enhancing intergenerational income mobility and reducing the skill premium. Using a calibrated …'s nationwide higher education expansion initiative launched in 1999. Quantitatively, the optimal policy enhances upward income … mobility by 56%, reduces the skill premium by 58%, and increases aggregate welfare by approximately 13%. …

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Intergenerational mobility in Uruguay using income-tax administrative data

Leites, Martín; Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Rodríguez, Cecilia - 2026

-scale administrative data using high-quality income data and provide novel evidence of intergenerational income mobility in a middle …

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The geography of intergenerational mobility in South Africa

Razak, Aarifah - 2026

This paper examines the geography of intergenerational income mobility in South Africa across districts and … geography influences intergenerational income mobility in South Africa and underscore the importance of spatially targeted … between 0.264 and 0.294. However, these averages conceal substantial spatial heterogeneity in intergenerational income …

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The geography of intergenerational mobility in Norway : labor market diversity, career opportunities, and gender

Turner, Lena Magnusson; Wessel, Terje - In: Journal of regional science 65 (2025) 1, pp. 25-42

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Intergenerational mobility and regional inequality in Brazil

Cenci, Eduardo; Lopes, Daniel; Monasteiro, Leonardo - 2026

We estimate the long-term intergenerational mobility (IM) in Brazil, by mesoregion, utiliz ing the methodology developed by Güell, Mora and Telmer (2015) and Güell et al. (2018). Benefiting from the unique features of Brazil, such as data availability on income, edu cation, full names, our...

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Intergenerational education mobility trends in South Africa : patterns by population group

Branson, Nicola; Ressom, Hagos - 2026

South Africa's education system remains shaped by a legacy of colonialism and apartheid, with persistent racial disparities in attainment despite multiple post-1994 reforms. Using wave 5 of the National Income Dynamics Study, this paper examines intergenerational education mobility across...

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Housing capital and intergenerational mobility in the United States

Binder, Ariel J.; Risch, Max; Voorheis, John - 2026

Housing is the largest capital asset for most families. While the intergenerational mobility literature has extensively studied the income distribution, it has devoted less attention to housing, in part due to data limitations. We document 3 features of intergenerational mobility by comparing...

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The intergenerational transmission of health in the long-run : exploring dynamic patterns across Africa

Argyros, Dimitrios - 2026

Africa remains the poorest and one of the most unequal regions globally, with limited upward mobility and strong intergenerational persistence of disadvantage. Child health is a key channel of transmission, shaping later outcomes in education, labour force participation, and earnings. This paper...

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Educational mobility across multiple generations in Indonesia

Cattan, Sarah; Dalla-Zuanna, Antonio; Stuhler, Jan; … - 2026

Standard intergenerational measures have been shown to understate the long-run persistence of socioeconomic advantages in developed countries. We study theoretically and empirically whether this pattern extends to less developed settings, using Indonesia as a case study. Using the Indonesian...

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Estimating nonlinear intergenerational mobility in China with an analysis of its influencing factors

Cai, Zongwu; Wang, Weitong; Yuan, Jing - 2026

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