From the cradle to the grave. The influence of family background on the career path of Italian men
Using a longitudinal data set that contains detailed information on working histories of
Italian men,we investigate the relationship between parental background and sons’earnings
profiles.We find that the parental influence on sons’ earnings persists over the career and
that the direct influence controlling for sons’ education is large and grows during the
working career. After twenty years of experience, our baseline specification indicates that
an additional year of parental education is associated with a 2.0% increase in sons’wages,