Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35673 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4171
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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