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| Title: | | The impact of parental education on earnings: new wine in an old bottle?  |
| Authors: | | Hudson, John Sessions, John G. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA discussion papers 4171 |
| Abstract: | | We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of factors suggest that parental education will affect the ability of an individual to translate labor market experience into earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks at 16 years of experience when their wages are 52% (24%) greater than those whose parents both have only 5 (10) years of education. |
| Subjects: | | Parental education human capital earnings |
| JEL: | | J30 J31 J33 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009060830 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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