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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...
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Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122193
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A renaissance for social mobility and its significance for the bridge towards postsecondary education
Ritzen, Jo - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
Inequality in earned wages is in our western society on the increase. Social mobility is on the decrease. The contribution of education to equality of opportunity is decreasing, because education adapts more slowly to the increasing complexities of our societies than the home and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712018
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Education and Invention
Toivanen, Otto; Väänänen, Lotta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
invention, using data on U.S. patents’ Finnish inventors and the distance to the nearest technical university as an instrument …Modern growth theory puts invention on the center stage. Inventions are created by individuals, raising the question …: can we increase number of inventors? To answer this question, we study the causal effect of M.Sc. engineering education on …
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The Role of Family Risk Attitudes in Education and Intergenerational Mobility: An Empirical Analysis
Huebener, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on 1984-2009 data of sons and fathers from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, there is evidence suggesting that sons with risk taking fathers have a significantly higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818237
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A new methodological approach for studying intergenerational mobility with an application to Swiss data
Jann, Ben; Seiler, Simon - University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences - 2014
Despite the widespread interest in the topic and a vast international literature, very little is known about the development of intergenerational mobility in Switzerland. Based on a new harmonized database for Switzerland (comprising various surveys such as different waves of the ISSP, EVS, and...
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Intergenerational educational mobility and completed fertility
Brzozowska, Zuzanna - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2015
This paper investigates the role of intergenerational social mobility in completed fertility of women born between 1948 and 1972 in Poland. It examines the hypothesis of acculturation, which implies that fertility of the mobiles will be in between that seen in their parents’ (origin) and their...
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The transmission of longevity across generations: The case of the settler Cape Colony
Piraino, Patrizio; Muller, Sean; Cilliers, Jeanne; … - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2013
The literature on parent-child correlations in socioeconomic status provides little evidence on long-term multigenerational dynamics. This is because most studies of intergenerational status persistence are based on two (at most three) successive generations. Our analysis adds to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010834040
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Who gets the Top Jobs? The role of family background and networks in recent graduates' access to high status professions
Macmillan, Lindsey; Tyler, Claire; Vignoles, Anna - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013
There is currently a debate in policy circles about access to "the upper echelons of power" (Sir John Major, ex Prime Minister, 2013). This research seeks to understand the relationship between family background and early access to top occupations. We find that privately educated graduates are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720416
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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884389