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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices: Are there gender differences in Ghana?

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  • Priscilla Twumasi Baffour
  • Festus Ebo Turkson
  • Ibrahim Mohammed
  • Wassiuw Abdul Rahaman

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Historically, the issue of intergenerational evolution of income, wealth, and socioeconomic status has been the subject of considerable research in the analysis of inequality. Such intergenerational linkages are anticipated to come from two sources: first, the inheritance of innate abilities and social network of family from parents by children; and second, capital market imperfections which present barriers to human capital investment.

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  • Priscilla Twumasi Baffour & Festus Ebo Turkson & Ibrahim Mohammed & Wassiuw Abdul Rahaman, 2021. "Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices: Are there gender differences in Ghana?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2021-66, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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