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More Equal but Less Mobile? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the United States

Checchi, Daniele; Ichino, Andrea; Rustichini, Aldo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

A state school system should be expected to reduce income inequality and to make intergenerational mobility easier. It …

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Social background, education and inequality

Andersen, Torben M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

more skilled over time. It is an implication that a large "active" public sector may lead to higher income and less …

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Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective

Alvaredo, Facundo; Saez, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper presents series on top shares of income and wealth in Spain over the 20th century using personal income and … wealth tax return statistics. Top income shares are highest in the 1930s, fall sharply during the first two decades of the … Franco dictatorship, and have increased slightly since the 1960s, and especially since the mid-1990s. The top 0.01% income …

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In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper provides a new perspective on intergenerational mobility in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We devise an empirical strategy that allows to calculate intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes. The key insight of our approach...

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The political economy of intergenerational income mobility

Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society … the intergenerational elasticity of income. The model clarifies how the interaction between private and collective … elasticity of income are not particularly informative about fairness without taking into account differences in politico …

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Inequality and Mobility

Hassler, John; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José; Zeira, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We use a general equilibrium OLG model to analyse the relation between intergenerational social mobility and wage inequality. We show that the correlation between mobility and inequality depends on which factor caused the change in inequality. The model can thus help discriminate between...

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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted sons born in Sweden, we have access to the criminal records of both the adopting and biological parents. This allows us to assess the relative importance of pre-birth factors...

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Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities

Alesina, Alberto F; La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The poor favour redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today’s poor into tomorrow’s rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution should depend on the extent and the nature of social...

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A new measure of skills mismatch: theory and evidence from the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC)

Fichen, Anne; Pellizzari, Michele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self-reported mismatch and skill use. The theoretical foundations underling this measure allow identifying minimum and maximum skill requirements for each occupation and to classify workers...

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Labor Market Policies and European Crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...

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