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In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union … Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of the investigation is a two …, the findings of the paper, where special attention is paid to migrants, offer a better understanding on the intergenera …
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This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia. A rich registry dataset on yearly earnings and different background characteristics for the period of 2007-2017 is used. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent...
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We study immigrant assimilation in terms of earnings dynamics and patterns of intergenerational transmission in permanent earnings by immigrant generation and neighborhood segregation levels. We estimate comparable sibling correlations across native and immigrant groups, but these seem to be...
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How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing results for both income and educational outcomes....
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This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of … face lower mobility irrespective of location when born to fathers with low schooling, but the gender gap closes when the … leads to gender divergence in relative mobility for the children of highly educated fathers. In urban China, and urban and …
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between immigrant parents is associated with stronger gender preferences. Third, comparing male and female migrants who marry …, child gender preferences are strongest for migrants who arrive after childhood but do not appear to diminish with the …This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant …
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Survey panel data for the years 2004-2005 and 2011-2012. We use three different tools, viz., transition matrices, multinomial …. Mobility patterns among workers are found to differ significantly along the lines of gender, caste, education, wealth, and …
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mobility gap between urban and rural populations and small differences by gender. It also finds that upward mobility is …
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documents a decline in the mobility gap between urban and rural populations with small differences by gender. It also finds that …
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We reconstruct the genealogical tree of all individuals ever appearing in Dutch municipalities records since 1995. Using microdata from tax authorities, we compute a measure of their permanent earnings and assess the degree to which the intergenerational transmission process is heterogeneous....
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