@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4876, author={Corak, Miles and Piraino, Patrizio}, title={Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers}, year={2010}, month={Apr}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={4876}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4876}, abstract={Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their fathers but this is positively related to paternal earnings and rises discretely at the top of the distribution. We use a switching regression model and identify two regimes associated with the inheritance of employers that have different intergenerational earnings elasticities. The model also demonstrates that the inheritance of employers plays a role in understanding observed nonlinearities.}, keywords={intergenerational mobility;job search;networks}, }