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Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2023

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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Intergenerational income mobility in England and the importance of education

Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Dearden, Lorraine; … - 2022

We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who grew up in the lowest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in...

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Refugees' integration into the Austrian labour market : dynamics of occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020

the jobs they currently held. This U-shaped pattern of occupational trajectories is familiar in the migration literature … employed. In both exercises, we report results regarding the heterogeneity across groups of refugees by age, gender, their …

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The labour market entry and integration of refugees and other migrants in Austria

Jestl, Stefan; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2023

This paper analyses the labour market entry of refugees and other (non-humanitarian) migrants originating from middle …- and low-income non-European countries that arrived in Austria in 2014-2016. Specifically, we analyse factors that shaped … and explore job stability in Austria. Even though refugees took longer to find a job, individual and household …

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Occupational trajectories among refugees in Austria : the role of co-ethnic and austrian social networks in job search

Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023

current jobs in Austria and the role of co-ethnic and Austrian social networks in job search, using data from a large …-scale survey of recognised refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran who have predominantly come to Austria since 2010 …

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The geography of intergenerational mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

Muñoz S., Ercio - 2024

mobility gap between urban and rural populations and small differences by gender. It also finds that upward mobility is …

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When measure matters : coresidence bias and intergenerational mobility revisited

Muñoz S., Ercio; Siravegna, Mariel - 2023

We provide novel evidence of the impact of coresidence bias on a large set of indicators of intergenerational mobility in education. We begin re-examining a recent claim that the correlation coefficient is less biased than the regression coefficient. Then, we expand our analysis to show that...

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Various domains of integration of refugees and their interrelationships : a study of recent refugee inflows in Austria

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2019

refugees in Austria, namely labour market integration and social integration. While labour market integration is captured in … built on the basis of a survey of about 1,600 refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran who had come to Austria since …

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Good peers have asymmetric gendered effects on female educational outcomes : experimental evidence from Mexico

Busso, Matias; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2021

This study examines the gendered effects of early and sustained exposure to high-performing peers on female educational trajectories. Exploiting random allocation to classrooms within middle schools, we measure the effect of male and female high performers on girls' high school placement...

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Does gender and sexual diversity lead to greater conflict in the school?

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Herrera, Alejandro; … - 2022

Diversity in gender identity and sexual orientation challenges traditional institutions, social norms, and gendered …

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