Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
April 15, 2018
Summary:
By using university administrative and survey data on Italian graduates, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of liberal professions. We find that having a father who is a liberal professional has a positive and significant effect on the probability of a graduate of becoming a liberal professional. To assess the processes at work in this intergenerational transmission, we evaluate the effect of having a liberal professional father on the probabilities to undertake each of the compulsory steps required to become a liberal professional, which are choosing a university degree providing access to a liberal profession, completing a period of practice, passing a licensing exam and starting a liberal profession. Having a liberal professional father has a positive and statistically significant effect on the probability to complete a compulsory period of practice and to start a liberal profession; whereas there does not seem to be an effect on the type of degree chosen and on passing the licensing examination, at least after controlling for child’s and parental formal human capital.
Published in
Labour Economics
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 51 , p.108 -120
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.12.003
ISSN
9275371
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Open Access
Under a Creative Commons license
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