16(30)
A higher share in a cell indicates overrepresentation and, correspondingly,
a lower share indicates underrepresentation. Table 3 shows that there is a
strong overrepresentation of sick leave among children of parents with a
high absence rate of sick leave. Parents in group 5 have about 10
percentage points more children who also belong to group 5 in their
generation. Interesting to note is that the opposite does not hold; the
children of parents in group 1 are rather equally distributed across all the
groups. Thus, the transmission of sick leave is most pronounced among
parents with the highest rate of sick leave. This pattern is about the same
across genders. Thus, there is no gender differential in the magnitude of
the transmission of sick leave among parents with a higher rate of sick
leave as there is with respect to the margin ―having sick leave or not‖
(c.f. Table 2).
Table 3
. Shares of children and parents in different quantiles in
respective distribution of sickness absence, divided by gender
Mothers
Group
1
2
3
4
5
Total
Percentile: 0–20
20–40
40–60
60–80
80–100
Daughters
1
19.70
19.97
20.69
20.60
19.03
100.00
2
20.02
20.48
19.91
19.64
19.95
100.00
3
19.03
18.56
19.49
21.32
21.60
100.00
4
16.45
18.14
18.95
21.12
25.34
100.00
5
15.36
16.35
16.97
21.07
30.26
100.00
Mothers
Sons
1
20.30
20.12
19.83
19.71
20.05
100.00
2
19.78
20.44
19.98
20.72
19.08
100.00
3
19.60
19.35
20.26
20.39
20.39
100.00
4
18.50
18.72
19.16
21.06
22.55
100.00
5
16.25
17.23
17.87
21.42
27.23
100.00
Fathers
Daughters
1
20.12
19.81
19.61
20.35
20.11
100.00
2
19.43
19.00
19.87
19.91
21.79
100.00
3
19.11
18.85
19.17
19.85
23.02
100.00
4
17.56
18.22
18.91
20.54
24.77
100.00
5
16.39
17.09
17.45
20.91
28.16
100.00
Fathers
Sons
1
19.84
19.69
20.36
21.00
19.11
100.00
2
19.16
21.03
19.96
19.96
19.89
100.00
3
19.16
20.29
20.05
19.99
20.51
100.00
4
18.44
18.69
19.55
20.97
22.35
100.00
5
16.73
16.30
18.26
20.51
28.21
100.00