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Intergenerational education mobility of black and white South Africans

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  • Alain-Désiré Nimubona

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  • Désiré Vencatachellum

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Article provided by Springer & European Society for Population Economics in its journal Journal of Population Economics.

Volume (Year): 20 (2007)
Issue (Month): 1 (February)
Pages: 149-182

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Keywords: Education; Intergenerational mobility; South Africa; I21; J24;

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  • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
  • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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Cited by:

  1. Nicolas Fleury & Fabrice Gilles, 2015. "A meta-regression analysis on intergenerational transmission of education: publication bias and genuine empirical effect," TEPP Working Paper 2015-02, TEPP.
  2. Tansel, Aysit, 2015. "Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Turkey," IZA Discussion Papers 9590, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  3. Nicolas Fleury & Fabrice Gilles, 2015. "A meta-regression analysis on intergenerational transmission of education: publication bias and genuine empirical effect," Working Papers halshs-01143490, HAL.
  4. Daouli, Joan & Demoussis, Michael & Giannakopoulos, Nicholas, 2010. "Mothers, fathers and daughters: Intergenerational transmission of education in Greece," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 29(1), pages 83-93, February.
  5. Leung, Ron & Stampini, Marco & Vencatachellum, Désiré, 2009. "Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis," IZA Discussion Papers 4608, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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