Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers

Arbeitspapier

Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their fathers but this is positively related to paternal earnings and rises discretely at the top of the distribution. We use a switching regression model and identify two regimes associated with the inheritance of employers that have different intergenerational earnings elasticities. The model also demonstrates that the inheritance of employers plays a role in understanding observed nonlinearities.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4876

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Subject: Intergenerational mobility ; job search ; networks ; Intergenerational Mobility ; Soziale Mobilität ; Einkommen ; Arbeitsuche ; Soziales Netzwerk ; Familiensoziologie ; Kanada

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Corak, Miles ; Piraino, Patrizio
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36819
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET