Some consequences of adverse events early in life for labor market outcomes may emerge early and others only later in adult life. We use data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to investigate how early life circumstances—childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES)—are associated with various labor market outcomes over an individual’s entire life cycle. Our main new finding is that these associations change significantly over the life cycle. For instance, the association of childhood SES with lifetime earnings is shown to become stronger over the life cycle and to operate through both working years and annual earnings. We discuss how our findings can explain some of the mixed evidence on these associations in previous literature. Our results also shed light on the potential gains in the different labor market outcomes of public policies that invest in children’s health and parents’ SES.

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生命周期中的早期生活情况和劳动力市场成果

生命早期的不良事件对劳动力市场成果的某些后果可能会提早出现，而其他后果只会在成年后出现。我们使用来自欧洲健康，老龄化和退休调查的数据来调查早期生命状况（儿童健康和社会经济地位（SES））如何与个人整个生命周期中的各种劳动力市场成果相关联。我们的主要新发现是，这些关联在生命周期中发生了显着变化。例如，儿童SES与终生收入之间的关联性在整个生命周期中变得越来越强，并且在工作年限和年收入中都可以使用。我们讨论了我们的发现如何解释以前文献中关于这些关联的一些混合证据。