Intergenerational occupational transmission: Do offspring walk in the footsteps of mom or dad, or both?

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 551-560

  Oren, Lior ^a   Caduri, Ariel ^a   Tziner, Aharon ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NETANYA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Career decision; Intergenerational occupational; Parent; Theory of Planned Behavior; Transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887145981     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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