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Gender and migration background in intergenerational educational mobility

Schneebaum, Alyssa; Rumplmaier, Bernhard; Altzinger, … - In: Education economics 24 (2016) 3/4, pp. 239-260

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School tracking and intergenerational social mobility : postponing school tracking can increase social mobility without significant adverse effects on educational achievement

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2014

The goal of school tracking (assigning students to different types of school by ability) is to increase educational efficiency by creating more homogeneous groups of students that are easier to teach. However, there are concerns that, if begun too early in the schooling process, tracking may...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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Migration to the US and marital mobility

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 3, pp. 669-694

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Intergenerational Transmission of Disadvantage : Mobility or Immobility Across Generations?

D'Addio, Anna - 2007

This report surveys the research in OECD countries on intergenerational mobility – i.e. the extent to which key characteristics and life experiences of individuals differ from those of their parents. A number of findings emerge: Intergenerational earnings mobility varies significantly across...

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Ph.D. Publication Productivity : The Role of Gender and Race in Supervision in South Africa

Rossello, Giulia; Cowan, Robin A.; Mairesse, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study whether student-advisor gender and race composition matters for publication productivity of Ph.D. students in … introduction of doctoral programs in this country. We investigate the joint effects of gender and race for the whole sample and … female students working with male advisors when looking at the joint effects of gender and race for the white-white and black …

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Current challenges to social mobility and equality of opportunity

OECD - 2022

The current economic environment, the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing megatrends, such as digitalisation and the green transformation, threaten equality of opportunity and social mobility for current and future generations. High-quality cross-country evidence is necessary to implement policies to...

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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation....

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Post-socialist transition and intergenerational educational mobility in Kyrgyzstan

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - In: Economics of transition 26 (2018) 1, pp. 61-89

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Schooling and Intergenerational Mobility : Consequences of Expanding Higher Education Institutions

Katzkowicz, Noemí; Lavy, Victor; Querejeta, Martina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Poor post-secondary education infrastructure and opportunities partly explain the low higher education rates in developing countries. This paper estimates the effect of a program that improved post-secondary education infrastructure by building many university campuses across Uruguay. Leveraging...

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