Gender occupational segregation: the role of parents

Magdalena Smyk

No 4, GRAPE Working Papers from GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics

Abstract: Gender occupational segregation is one of the most stable phenomena of the labor market. In this study we employ PSID dataset to test whether the fact that women have different professions than men can be, at least partially, explained by their parents occupational history. We find that fathers profession, both first one and the one observed by the son correlate positively with gender intensity of son's occupation. Mother's first occupation is associated with daughter's, but the one that it is performed by mother during daughter's growing up is insignificant. While father's profession is negatively correlated with gender intensity of daughter's profession, mother's occupation does not matter for son's career.

Keywords: choice of occupation; family; gender occupational segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-gen and nep-hme
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