The Intergenerational Dynamics of Social Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Europe and the United States
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Keywords
Social and economic inequality; intergenerational income mobility; poverty; social exclusion;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2013-10-02 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LTV-2013-10-02 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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