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My name is Miles Corak. I am a professor with The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, trained in labour economics, and working on child rights, poverty, immigration, social and economic mobility, unemployment, and social policy.

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Canadian geography of intergenerational mobility
Intergenerational Mobility: What do we care about?
Intergenerational Mobility Canada and the US
‘Inequality is the root of social evil,’ or Maybe Not?
Too Many Children Left Behind
Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility
Economic mobility in the US and Canada
Income mobility in North America and Europe
Intergenerational mobility in Canada, Sweden, and the US
Immigration in the long run
Intergenerational transmission of employers
Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting
From Parents to Children
Age at immigration & child migrants to the US
Young immigrant children in Australia, Canada, the UK & the US
How to Slide down the Great Gatsby Curve
Unemployment Insurance
Intergenerational transmission of education among immigrants

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