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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146822
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269450
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Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers
Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010
Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952855
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Inequality during the early years : child outcomes and readiness to learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce; Corak, Miles; Waldfogel, Jane; … - 2011
Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged …This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at … the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009519857
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Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds … the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529141
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The intergenerational transmission of employers
Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010
We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942314
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2011
Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their … children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127955
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers
Corak, Miles - 2010
We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146479
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Parental education and the rising transmission of income between generations
Connolly, Marie; Haeck, Catherine; Laliberté, Jean-William - 2020
Intergenerational mobility has decreased over time for the cohorts of children born between the 1960s and the 1980s in … Canada. At the same time, returns to education have gone up. Both factors have contributed to exacerbating income gaps … between children of parents with and without secondary education. However, the transmission of residual parental income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236646
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Social mobility trends in Canada : going up the Great Gatsby Curve
Connolly, Marie; Haeck, Catherine; Lapierre, David - 2019 - This version: May 27, 2019
the inequality of the parental income distribution, as measured by the Gini coefficient. Hence Canada, and all its … causality is not formally tested here. The decrease in mobility, particularly for children born in the bottom quintile of the … research in order to provide equal opportunities to all children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147275