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...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Economics & Sociology Vol. 56; pp. 331 - 352 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
July 1997
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