The intergenerational transmission of employers

Arbeitspapier

We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent 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 in determining nonlinear patterns in the intergenerational elasticity of earnings.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4819

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Subject: Intergenerational mobility ; job search ; Arbeitsplatz ; Arbeitsuche ; Intergenerational Mobility ; Familiensoziologie ; Soziale Beziehungen ; Kanada

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Corak, Miles ; Piraino, Patrizio
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36086
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET