Sökning: "intergenerational income mobility"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 21 avhandlingar innehållade orden intergenerational income mobility.
1. Understanding Intergenerational Mobility : Inequality, Student Aid and Nature-Nurture Interactions
Sammanfattning : Essay I: A body of evidence has emerged in the literature on intergenerational mobility documenting that unequal countries experience less social mobility: a relationship known as the Great Gatsby Curve. In this paper I estimate the Great Gatsby Curve within Sweden across 125 commuting zones and 20 cohorts, exploiting both cross-sectional and longitudinal variation. LÄS MER
2. Inequality, Poverty and Income Mobility - Studies based om micro data for the city of Göteborg, Sweden, 1925-2003
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3. Essays on intergenerational income mobility, geographical mobility, and education
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introductory part and the following four self-contained papers:In Paper [I] we analyze the implications of social identity and self-categorization for optimal redistributive income taxation. A two-type model is supplemented by an assumption that individuals select themselves into social categories, in which norms are formed and education effort choices partly depend on these norms. LÄS MER
4. The Taller the Ladder, the Tougher the Climb? : Essays on the Impact of Income Inequality on Intergenerational Mobility
Sammanfattning : The study of income inequality has a rich history within economics and various social sciences. More recently, a growing body of literature has examined intergenerational income mobility to understand not only equality of opportunities but also whether the labor market allocation successfully utilizes the potential abilities from all social strata. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Mobility
Sammanfattning : The Cyclicality of Earnings Growth Along the Distribution - Causes and ConsequencesEarnings growth is more procyclical at the bottom of the income distribution than at the top. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, I show that the heterogeneity is chiefly driven by transitions between employment and non-employment, specifically job-finding. LÄS MER