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44 p, 461.2 KB Empirical approaches to inequality of opportunity : principles, measures, and evidence / Ramos Morilla, Xavier ; Gaer, Dirk Van de ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. [...]
2012 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 1208)  
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41 p, 353.2 KB Parental education and family characteristics : educational opportunities across cohorts in Italy and Spain / Di Paolo, Antonio (Universitat de Barcelona) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
Drawing on data contained in the 2005 EU-SILC, this paper investigates the disparities in educational opportunities in Italy and Spain. Its main objective is to analyse the predicted probabilities of successfully completing upper-secondary and tertiary education for individuals with different parental backgrounds, and the changes in these probabilities across birth cohorts extending from 1940 to 1980. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2010 (XREAP ; 2010-5)  
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32 p, 300.2 KB Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help / Canova, Luciano (Enrico Mattei School) ; Vaglio, Alessandro (Università degli studi di Bergamo) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
The paper investigates the role of mothers in affecting childrens' performance at school. It develops a theoretical model in which household is treated as an individual, whose utility depends on the performance at school of the student and on consumption. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2010 (XREAP ; 2010-17)  
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34 p, 225.2 KB What are the causes of educational inequalities and of their evolution over time in Europe? Evidence from PISA / Oppedisano, Veruska (University College London) ; Turati, Gilberto (Università degli studi di Torino) ; Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP)
This paper provides evidence on the sources of differences in inequalities in educational scores in European Union member states, by decomposing them into their determining factors. Using PISA data from the 2000 and 2006 waves, the paper shows that inequalities emerge in all countries and in both period, but decreased in Germany, whilst they increased in France and Italy. [...]
Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) 2010 (XREAP ; 2010-16)  
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26 p, 321.1 KB Transmisión intergeneracional de la pobreza en Uruguay / Ferrari Recalde, Olga Gissel ; Ramos Morilla, Xavier, dir. ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa
El deterioro de los niveles de desigualdad y el empeoramiento de los niveles de pobreza que se registraron en Uruguay durante la crisis de comienzos del siglo XXI, tuvieron una especial repercusión en la infancia y la juventud, haciendo más vulnerable el futuro desempeño socioeconómico de las nuevas generaciones. [...]
2009  
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53 p, 507.1 KB Desigualdad de rentas y desigualdad de oportunidad en España / Sapata, Christelle ; Ramos Morilla, Xavier ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa
Este trabajo proporciona una medición empírica de la desigualdad de renta del trabajo atribuible a la desigualdad de oportunidad entre la población ocupada de España. Esta medición se basa en estimar una ecuación de rentas del trabajo por mínimos cuadrados ordinarios y por variables instrumentales con el fin de controlar por el posible sesgo de endogeneidad de la variable de educación. [...]
2009  
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30 p, 285.5 KB Measuring intergenerational earnings mobility in Spain : a selection-bias-free approach / Cervini-Plá, María ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada
This paper analyses intergenerational earnings mobility in Spain correcting for different selection biases. We address the co-residence selection problem by combining information from two samples and using the two-sample two-stage least square estimator. [...]
2009 (Document de treball (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Economia Aplicada) ; 0904)  

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