Thank you! We have a lot to discuss when the opportunity presents itself, I think!

Finally!!

Ultimately, this work dovetails with a lot of other research on SBTC, intragenerational mobility, gender/racial wage gaps, and more. It is simultaneously a paper on measurement and theory, and I hope it can help advance the field in this era of expanding data resources and rapid occupational change.

Like the prosociality penalty, which penalizes workers who prioritize certain kinds of prosocial jobs, this inheritance of occupational characteristics could lead to certain inequalities in other aspects of work (pay, benefits, other occupational characteristics), but that remains to be seen.

This paper ultimately asserts that multiple kinds of characteristics of jobs are "inherited" across generations, a phenomenon that can lead to occupational and class reproduction, but that can also lead to patterned occupational movements outside of occupational/class reproduction.

Importantly, this generalizes across parent-child gender dyads, including mother-son and father-daughter occupational characteristic inheritance. We also show that many of the most common occupational transitions span class boundaries.

In this paper, we use a simple dimension reduction exercise of occupational characteristics, alongside pooled surveys containing info on parent-child occupation dyads. We show that occupational characteristics are preserved in ways that go beyond either SEI transmission or class immobility.

This work was originally motivated by the question of occupational "mobility" itself. While sociologists have plenty of theories of what explains immobility (class theory, micro-class theory), describing trends in inter-occupation movement is something we're not very good at.