Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51858 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5593
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The intergenerational transmission of employers between fathers and sons is a common feature of labour markets in Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their fathers. This is strongly associated with the first jobs obtained during the teen years, but for four to about six percent it also refers to the main job in adulthood. In both countries the transmission of employers is positively associated with paternal earnings, rising distinctly and sharply at the very top of the father's earnings distribution, and has implications for the intergenerational transmission of earnings. Mobility out of the bottom has little to do with inheriting an employer from the father, while the preservation of high income status is distinctly related to this tendency. These findings stress that child adult outcomes are related to the structure of labour markets, and underscore the role of resources parents have - though information, networks, or direct control of the hiring process - in facilitating the job search of their children.
Subjects: 
intergenerational mobility
job search
equality of opportunity
JEL: 
J62
J64
J24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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