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| Title: | | Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages  |
| Authors: | | Dustmann, Christian |
| Issue Date: | | 2001 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 367 |
| Abstract: | | The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in Germany an important decision about which educational track to follow is made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at around the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent career prospects of the child. Our analysis covers the last 6 decades. We demonstrate that parents? educational background and professional class are strongly related to the secondary track school the child follows, and subsequent educational achievements. We find a slight convergence for individuals from different parental background over the last decades. We also find convergence between males and females. The relationship between parental class and children?s education translates into earnings differentials later in life. |
| Subjects: | | Education parental background school transitions |
| JEL: | | J31 I2 J24 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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