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This paper examines the motives underlying inter vivos transfers within the family. Moving away from the altruism & exchange hypotheses, we study the endogenous altruism approach in which private transfers are rooted in a purposeful shaping of preferences within the family. Rather than relying on the demonstration effect theory where parents take care of their elders in order to elicit a similar behavior from their children, we present a model of cultural transmission of altruistic values between generations in which individuals can be either altruistic or nonaltruistic with respect to their parents. The predictions of the model are empirically tested using French data that allow us to investigate time-related transfers & attention from middle-aged respondents to their elders. The empirical results are in favor of the cultural transmission of altruism, in that people who support their parents are more likely to be supported by their children. 4 Tables, 63 References. Adapted from the source document.

Using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and the Complementary Survey on Working Conditions for 1998, we analyze earnings inequalities along the wage distribution between workers using novel technologies (ICT) at their job and those not using them. We estimate quantile regressions with technological dummies and carry out a decomposition analysis, both at the aggregate level and by occupations. At the aggregate level, most of the wage gap between both populations is explained by the divergence in their labor characteristics. In jobs where ICT are not very diffused, the technological premium is larger than in jobs characterized by a large presence of novel technologies. Whereas in the former type of jobs, the technological premium is mainly justified by a divergence in the labor market characteristics between ICT users and non users, in positions characterized by a wide presence of novel technologies the technological premium responds rather to a divergence in the returns to identical characteristics.