Intergenerational talent transmission, inequality, and social mobility

The paper investigates the effects of intra-family talent transmission when human capital exhibits indivisibilities and parental financing of education involves borrowing constraints. Positive talent correlation reduces social mobility but steady state inequality and macroeconomic history-dependence are not affected.

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Year of publication:	2006-10
Authors:	Napel, Stefan ; Schneider, Andrea
Institutions:	Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg
Subject:	Intergenerational mobility \| Inequality \| Occupational choice \| History- dependence

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series Working Paper Number 52/2006 18 pages
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D91 - Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving ; E25 - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution ; I21 - Analysis of Education ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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