1. Childhood, Schooling and Income Inequality
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Christelle Garrouste, Danilo Cavapozzi, Omar Paccagnella, Dipartimento di Economia 'Marco Fanno', Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), and Universita degli Studi di Padova
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Persistence (psychology) ,Labour economics ,Work ethic ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public policy ,Childhood conditions ,JEL: I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I24 - Education and Inequality ,Economic inequality ,Retrospective survey ,0502 economics and business ,Economics ,050207 economics ,Employment outcomes ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ,media_common ,05 social sciences ,1. No poverty ,050301 education ,Income ,Educational attainments ,[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance ,Educational attainment ,8. Economic growth ,Unemployment ,JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D6 - Welfare Economics/D.D6.D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ,Demographic economics ,0503 education - Abstract
Parental socio-economic background plays an important role in determining employment outcomes during the individual’s whole life-cycle. Indeed, the environment in which individuals grow up plays a crucial role in determining their later socio-economic condition, regardless of their own abilities. On the one hand, this link might be due to the transmission of social norms (e.g. work ethics) or risk attitudes from parents to children. On the other hand, public policies may strengthen or weaken cross-generational persistence in the socio-economic status.
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- 2011
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