Suspect if they're getting more explanatory power from which part of the world their family originated from than any kind of indicator of actual employment hist

Suspect if they're getting more explanatory power from which part of the world their family originated from than any kind of indicator of actual employment history, it's because they either don't have enough usable employment history data or they badly misspecified the employment history indicators. Agree that the macro model they have might nevertheless be relevant to certain policy decisions, but not individual ones.