主 题：Aggregate Implications of Occupational Inheritance in China and India

主讲人： 纪珽

摘 要：This paper documents occupational inheritance--interpreted as children inheriting their parents' occupations--in China, India, and other countries. We categorize potential reasons of the prevalence of occupational inheritance in China and India into two main groups: (1) labor market frictions, e.g., household registration system (“hukou”), which ties rural families to agriculture in China, and the caste system, which restricts young workers' occupation choices in India, and (2) barriers to acquiring human capital, e.g., low availability of school education and workplace training. Based on a tractable occupation choice model, counterfactual experiments suggest that if the impediments mentioned above could be reduced to the US level, labor productivity would grow by 62 to 78% in China and over fourfold in India. In addition, China has realized 56 to 68% of this growth potential from the 1980s to 2009.

关于主讲人： 纪珽，威斯尼斯人，国际经济与贸易学院讲师。2015年获得美国加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)经济学博士学位

时间：2016年3月24日星期四15:40-17:00

地点：学术会堂南楼608室

主办单位：人力资本与劳动经济研究中心

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