On 2003-07-10, John Perich uttered to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >In my informal experience, fathers and sons tend to work together >full-time only in professions with strict licensing or training >requirements.
That's an interesting one. My first stab is that we might go about it the other way. Why do such professions need strict licencing? One explanation would be that these professions are crafts where the best way to learn the job is to do it. In such professions we wouldn't expect there to be strict outcome based criteria on what one needs to know, but we do know that a certain learning process is more successful than others. So, if we want to assure safety and efficiency, we can't just test for an applicant's skills -- there'd be a problem with information. Thus the market orients itself along the learning process, the uncertainty about the outcomes makes the professions more amenable to legislative intervention, and the eventual legislation then follows the process oriented reasoning. >Also - why is it more often "father/son," and not "mother/daughter" or >"mother/son"? Or "father/daughter"? Perhaps self-selection in occupations, so that parent/child combinations with different sexes do not benefit from intergenerational knowledge transfer? That leaves the mother/daughter pairing. Perhaps that's because of self-selection into lines of work which are less "crafty"? -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
