Intergenerational talent transmission, inequality, and social mobility

Arbeitspapier

The paper investigates the effects of intra-family talent transmission when human capital exhibits indivisibilities and parental financing of education involves borrowing constraints. Positive talent correlation reduces social mobility but steady state inequality and macroeconomic history-dependence are not affected.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Diskussionspapier ; No. 52

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Aggregate Factor Income Distribution ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Analysis of Education ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡ ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
• Subject: Intergenerational mobility ; Inequality ; Occupational choice ; Historydependence

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Napel, Stefan ; Schneider, Andrea
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Hamburg
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23639
• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:705-opus-16853
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET