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τ ^ J F F
> ^τ
τ ^ > ^τ
J
1
q t+1
^q
s
0 q q 0 1/2 s 1
^
q
t
Figure 1: Convergence to the steady state of the women distribution of
preferences ˆq s .
As a consequence of this first effect, job-priority preferences tend to expand
among young generations (see (23) considering ˆτ j t > ˆτ f t ). However, there
exists a second factor which must be considered. The effort of mothers to
socialize children in their own preferences is not independent of the potential
benefits for inheriting these preferences. On this issue, families share
identical points of view. The higher the expected wage, the higher the opportunity
cost of leaving the labour market will be. Then j mothers have
an additional incentive to intensify their education effort while the incentive
to transmit family preferences for f mothers decreases (Lemma 1). In
this context, the second effect reinforces the first one, and the fraction of
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