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The impact of the growth of the local supply of public schools in the post-Colonial period on intergenerational mobility in education is a first-order question in the Arab World. This question is examined in Jordan using a unique dataset that links individual data on own schooling and parents' schooling for adults, from a household survey, with the supply of schools in the subdistrict of birth at the time the individual was of age to enroll, from a school census. The identification strategy exploits the variation in the supply of basic and secondary public schools across cohorts and subdistricts of birth in Jordan, controlling for year and subdistrict-of-birth fixed effects and interactions of governorate and year-of-birth fixed effects. The findings show that the local availability of basic public schools does, in fact, increase intergenerational mobility in education. For instance, a one standard deviation increase in the supply of basic public schools per 1,000 people reduces the father-son and mother-son associations of schooling by 18-20 percent and the father-daughter and mother-daughter associations by 33-44 percent. However, an increase in the local supply of secondary public schools does not seem to have an effect on the intergenerational mobility in education.

Education --- Inequality Of Opportunity --- Intergenerational Mobility --- Middle East --- Supply of Schooling

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Since the global financial crisis, US wage growth has been sluggish. Drawing on individual earnings data from the 2000–15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair—likely owing to low entry wages of new workers—slowed down real wage growth. There are, however, also signs of structural changes in the labor market affecting wages: for full-time, full-employed workers, the Wage-Phillips curve—the empirical relationship between wage growth and the unemployment rate—has become horizontal after 2008. Similarly, job-turnover rates have continued to decline. Job-to-job transitions—associated with higher wage growth—have slowed across all skill and age groups and beyond what local labor market conditions would imply. This raises concerns about the allocative ability of the labor market to adjust to changing economic conditions.

Wages --- Labor market --- Labor mobility --- Aggregate Human Capital --- Aggregate Labor Productivity --- Demand and Supply of Labor: General --- Economic theory --- Employment --- Income economics --- Intergenerational Income Distribution --- Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility --- Labor economics --- Labor Economics: General --- Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure --- Labor markets --- Labor Turnover --- Labor --- Labour --- Layoffs --- Macroeconomics --- Promotion --- Unemployment rate --- Unemployment --- Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search --- Vacancies --- Wage Differentials --- Wage Level and Structure --- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General --- United States