Labor mobility and intergenerational transmission of self-employment in Mexico

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The immediate social and domestic influences on occupational or self-employment choices in Mexico are explored in this article. Specifically, this article proposes that structural aspects of the economy have impeded the creation of formal jobs. In addition to a lack of formal employment, certain socio-cultural factors have led to the promotion of self-employment choices. These choices tend to be to be multi-generational due to the fact that working parents tend to transmit certain informal human capital to their offspring in two ways; first, through the inheritance of skills related to specific occupational choices, and secondly, through their general administrative knowledge such as the ability to work independently in an occupation. Due to the lack of data sources (studies) which are sufficiently wide and -term to allow us to follow self-employed workers for several generations, methodologically, we must analyze a smaller sample size: parents G1 and children G2 from the same family. The data is taken from the National Study of Occupation and Employment (ENOE) 2010.