Runs in the Family? The Intergenerational Transmission of Public Sector Jobs

• In Event: The Recruitment, Attraction, and Selection of Public Sector Employees

Brief Overview

We test whether parents influence the children’s working in the public sector. We found that children whose fathers in the public sector are more likely to work in the public sector than other children whose fathers in the private sector.

Authors

• Euipyo Lee, The University of Texas at El Paso

• Juwon Chung, Indiana University-Bloomington