The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio
• 署名单位: University of Cape Town; University of Ottawa
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/656371
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 37-68
• 关键词: occupational inheritance; earnings mobility; income mobility; CONSEQUENCES; networks; nonlinearities; succession; transfers; firm

摘要

We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men have been employed at some time with an employer for which their father also worked, and 6%-9% have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at the very top of the earnings distribution, and to the presence of self-employment income and the number of employers with which the father has had direct contact. It has an important influence on nonlinear patterns in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.