The intergenerational transmission of noncognitive skills and their effect on education and employment outcomes

Ildefonso Mendez () and Gema Zamarro
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Ildefonso Mendez: Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Facultad de Economía y Empresa,University of Murcia

Journal of Population Economics, 2018, vol. 31, issue 2, No 7, 560 pages

Abstract: Abstract We use information on second-generation migrants to study the existence of a cultural component on the formation process of noncognitive skills and its effect on education and employment outcomes. Our measures of noncognitive skills include: personality traits that children are encouraged to learn at home and inherited civic capital. Individuals whose cultural heritage places a relatively higher value to independence and, in comparison, a relative lower value on child qualities positively associated with the conscientiousness personality factor, i.e. hard work and thrift, report lower education, worse occupational status and lower wages on average. Individuals with a higher inherited civic capital declare a higher educational level, but we find no effect of inherited civic capital on adult labor market outcomes.

Keywords: Culture; Civic capital; Child qualities; Noncognitive skills; Education; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 J24 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-017-0661-0

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