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Title: Following in her footsteps? The intergenerational transmission of gender-stereotypical labour market behaviour

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: Gender segregation in the labour market is a factor that has been identified in the literature to contribute to the remaining gender wage gap. This paper investigates one of the possible determinants of gender-related labour market choices by investigating the role of parental occupational choices on the occupational choices of young adults. Longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult have been combined into an informative cross-section of mothers and young adults, including information at several points in time. Due to endogeneity concerns regarding parental occupation, the estimator by Klein and Vella (2010) is considered in the empirical analysis. The results imply that mothers who make more gender-stereotypical labour market decisions have children who do so as well. These findings suggest that attempts of policy makers to decrease gender inequality in the labour market might be less successful due to the intergenerational transmission of gender-stereotypical labour market behaviour.

Url: https://feb.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/28836/

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Authors: de Mul, B.P.

Institution: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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