Self-Recruitment in the Legal Profession
研究律师职业的代际传承，发现律师将法律知识和技能低成本传给子女，这种人力资本转移显著影响儿子选择子承父业，且二代律师收入更高。
The authors argue that lawyers' sons follow in their parents' footsteps because the occupation lends itself to low-cost transfer of relevant skills and knowledge from one generation to the next, especially in the context of the family law practice. Analysis of Project Talent data reveals that knowledge about the law is transmitted from lawyers to their children and that this transmitted knowledge is a significant factor in a son's decision to follow in his father's legal footsteps. Second-generation lawyers who receive these human capital transfers experience greater earnings than lawyers who have not received such transfers. Copyright 1992 by University of Chicago Press.