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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters : levels and trends

Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan Among Sons and Daughters : Levels and Trends

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2012

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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2021

Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional differences in schooling attainments and wages. Given scholastic ability, household background variables (especially...

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What Role Does Marriage Play in Urban Africa? Evidence from a High HIV Area in Kenya

Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan - 2010

the link between marriage and sexual activity on a sample of migrants in the town of Kisumu, Western Kenya, which reported … remittances among the migrants (after instrumenting), consistent with the view that marriage improves labor market outcomes and …The marriage institution, which plays an important role in regulating sexual activity in most societies, traditionally …

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Household interaction and the labor supply of married women

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2012

Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...

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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...

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Country of Origin, Earnings Convergence, and Human Capital Investment : A New Method for the Analysis of U.S. Immigrant Economic Assimilation

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2021

The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...

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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing

Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002

marriage as well as for a precautionary savings motive. …

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The return to college, marriage, and intergenerational mobility

Gould, Eric D. - 2023

This paper examines the idea that the increasing return to college is reducing intergenerational mobility by differentially impacting the investments in children by parents across education groups. A larger return to college will create stronger incentives to invest in children by parents with...

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Public beliefs in social mobility and high-skilled migration

Lumpe, Claudia - In: Three essays on simultaneous migration of heterogeneous …, (pp. 1-36). 2018

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