The Role of Social Networks and Organizations in the Intergenerational Transmission of Wage Inequality (A04)

A4分析了职业网络和工作组织在一代人和几代人之间的工资不平等的作用，基于基准分析框架和基于代理的模拟模型与异质工人和公司。首先，由于在更高层级职位上拥有更多专业关系的工人可以预期更快的晋升和更高的工资增长，专业网络将扩大劳动力市场上的工资分散。因此，该项目的第一个目标是更好地理解这种放大效应是如何与企业的等级结构相关联的，以及企业结构是如何将技能异质性传递给工资质量的。其次，我们预计父母网络的质量和结构将对年轻一代的内生教育决策产生影响。该项目将在模拟环境中探讨这一机制的重要性，该机制将父母职业网络的异质性转化为工资不平等。

A4 analyzes the role of professional networks and work organizations for wage inequality within one generation and across generations based on a benchmark analytical framework and an agent-based simulation model with heterogeneous workers and firms. First, as workers with more pro-fessional ties in higher hierarchical positions can expect faster promotions and a higher wage growth, professional networks will amplify wage dispersion in the labor market. The first goal of the project is, hence, to gain a better understanding how this amplifying effect is related to the hierarchical structure of firms and how firm structures transmit skill heterogeneity to wage ine-quality. Second, we expect that the quality and the structure of the parents network will have an impact on the endogenous educational decisions of the young generation. The project will explore the importance of this mechanism, which transforms heterogeneity with respect to the profes-sional network of the parents to wage inequality, in a simulation setting.