This paper examines the extent to which children enter into occupations that are different from their father’s occupation, but require similar skills, which we call task following. We consider the possibility that fathers are able to transfer task-specific human capital either through investments or genetic endowments to their children. We show that there is indeed substantial task following, beyond occupational following and that task following is associated with a wage premium of around 5% over otherwise identical workers employed in a job with the same primary task. The size of the premium is similar in magnitude to the size of the premium associated with occupational following. The wage premium is robust to controls for industry, occupation categories and occupation characteristics.

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任务追随者和劳动力市场结果

本文考察了儿童从事与父亲职业不同但需要相似技能的职业的程度，我们称之为任务跟随。我们考虑了父亲能够通过投资或遗传禀赋将特定于任务的人力资本转移给孩子的可能性。我们表明，除了职业追随者之外，确实存在大量的任务追随，并且与从事相​​同主要任务的工作中其他相同的工人相比，追随任务的工资溢价约为 5%。溢价的大小在数量级上与职业追随相关的溢价大小相似。工资溢价对于行业、职业类别和职业特征的控制是稳健的。