old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons‘ subjective …

The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using … data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and … children using nested and conditional logit models. To separate effects related to genetic factors (nature) and parental …

Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers ́and childrenś occupational choices. We discuss policy …

The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using … data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and … children using nested and conditional logit models. To separate effects related to genetic factors (nature) and parental …

Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects … children who grew up with their biological fathers and those who did not. The results suggest that nurture-related effects … explain a significant fraction of the observed correlation of fathers’ and children’s occupational choices. We discuss policy …