Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94891 
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Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IUI Working Paper No. 539
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI), Stockholm
Abstract: 
A model of occupational choice and human capital investment is developed and tested. The model allows family background to influence occupational choice via access to economic resources, differences in costs of schooling, and ability uncertainty. The model predicts that people are more sensitive to economic incentives when considering occupations that are different from the parental occupation. It also predicts that the occupational choice of individuals from poor background is more sensitive to economic incentives than the occupational choice of well off individuals. These implications are confirmed on Swedish data using a mixed multinomial logit framework, explicitly accounting for unobserved heterogeneity.
Subjects: 
Economic incentives
Family background
Intergenerational mobility
Mixed multinomial logit
Occupational choice
JEL: 
C25
J24
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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