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Education and intergenerational mobility in occupations: a comparative study.

The problem of measuring the intergenerational transmission of inequality and its implications for social welfare is studied. A possible decomposition of relevant factors—namely, educational attainments and other factors—is proposed and applied to three individual data sets regarding Germany, Italy...

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Published in:American Journal of Economics & Sociology Vol. 56; pp. 331 - 352
Main Author: Checchi, Daniele
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell July 1997
Subjects:
Human capital
Occupational achievement
Educational attainment
Income inequality
Intergenerational relations
Economics
United States
Italy
Germany (West)
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