Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36353 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4813
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The lack of formal education and competences of the Portuguese workers is one of the biggest problems of the country. This lack is disappearing as quickly as desired and the young generations still lag far behind those in other OECD countries. This paper studies the intergenerational transmission of education achievement, in particular higher education completion, seeking to determine the influence on future attainment of parents' education and labor market conditions while the child was growing up. We conclude that the education of the parents is very important, even if it is only one of them that has it. This influence seems not to be independent of the gender of the parent who has it. The fact that the parents face unemployment has a negative effect on the educational achievement of the child. Females generally perform better than males, but there are exceptions. For instance, it is significantly lower if the father has low education and the mother has secondary or higher education.
Subjects: 
Demand for schooling
human capital
parent's education
JEL: 
I21
I28
J11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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