The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers

By Miles Corak, Patrizio Piraino. Journal of Labor Economics, 2011

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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.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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• Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children? (2012, background): “The fourth mechanism is that parents may pass on occupation- and/or industry-specific skills or tastes to their children ð Laband and Lentz 1983; Dunn and Holtz-Eakin 2000; Sørensen 2007; Corak and Piraino 2011Þ.”