Essays in Labour Economics and Intergenerational Mobility

Diplôme Thèse Essays in Labour Economics and Intergenerational Mobility eng 2025-09-09 2025-09-09 author Campa Pietro 0009-0005-3938-4122 948265 director De Giorgi Giacomo 860600 Recherche et enseignement GSEM (RESEM) director Robert-Nicoud Frédéric 85680 Recherche et enseignement GSEM (RESEM) 119 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:189526 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1895265 GSEM 156 This dissertation comprises three chapters exploring the impacts of initial conditions, such as parental background or environmental factors in childhood, on lifetime economic outcomes. Such initial conditions are often unrelated to individual effort or ability. Yet, they profoundly shape access to opportunities, raising fundamental questions about fairness and efficiency. Why do differences in parental background translate so persistently into disparities in lifetime outcomes? How do these early circumstances position one child for success while creating major obstacles for another? Addressing these questions is key to critical discussion and effective design of policies aimed at promoting individual well-being and social progress. Ultimately, this thesis is driven by curiosity about the roots of economic inequality and enthusiasm for the role scientific evidence plays in improving our societies. The first chapter explores how segregation in school-based social networks mirrors parental income disparities, reinforcing the intergenerational transmission of economic inequality. The second chapter investigates the long-term effects of early-life credit access, demonstrating that disparities in borrowing capacity persist over time and are strongly associated with parents’ access to credit. The third chapter examines how early-life credit constraints substantially limit access to financial resources later in life. Dewey 330 114 Institute of Economics and Econometrics S2 false 10354da2-8ba2-4971-9246-a20b572b009d Thesis Restricted ThesisFinal.pdf 6487545 application/pdf 4409b394771ec86262a7737f786548320137a80e28ccd0264eccbdb9880650be 449b4578-3516-4f1d-adc0-e3f17ab52f64 Imprimatur Public CAMPA_Pietro_Imprimatur.pdf 42899 application/pdf 025ab840ffb4dd04a34ad2f84b29f6daf3ca7a40ef8508b2481a1efafe9e6827 restrictedAccess Faculté d'économie et de management / Institute of Economics and Econometrics

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