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Poverty traps and affluence shields : modelling the persistence of income position in Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2021

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Climbing the ladder : determinants of access to and returns from higher education in Chile and Peru

Gaentzsch, Anja; Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2020

In spite of large structural expansions in higher education in Chile and Peru during the 1980s and 1990s, and a …. This paper investigates the role that higher education has played for social mobility in Chile and Peru. In particular, to … educational attainment in Chile and Peru, distribution of students to different types of tertiary education (public …

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? : the Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009 - Rev. version

In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...

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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution : evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010 - Revised version

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...

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Intergenerational mobility and the rise and fall of inequality : lessons from Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between and within country setup, using harmonized micro data from 18 Latin...

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The glass ceiling and the paper floor : gender differences among top earners, 1981-2012

Guvenen, Fatih; Kaplan, Greg; Song, Jae - 2014

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Poverty, vulnerability and the middle class in Latin America

Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - 2015

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability that also affects the rising middle-class. More...

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Inequality and creative destruction

Blundell, Richard W.; Jaravel, Xavier; Toivanen, Otto - 2022

In this article we review recent evidence showing how market forces and policies shape the rate and direction of innovation, with various implications for inequality. First, we characterize several market mechanisms whereby higher rates of innovation lead to higher inequality. Second, we...

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Earnings dynamics and its intergenerational transmission : evidence from Norway

Halvorsen, Elin; Ozkan, Serdar; Salgado, Sergio - 2021

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Social mobility and economic development : evidence from a panel of Latin American regions

Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021

We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development by constructing a panel data set that includes measures of intergenerational mobility of education at the sub-national level in Latin America. First, we map the geography of educational mobility for 52 Latin American...

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