Start me up: How fathers' unemployment affects their sons' school-to-work transitions

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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), continuous-time duration models are applied to examine whether paternal unemployment delays sons' school-to-work transitions and thus leads to a spell of early career non-employment. The results show that substantial delaying effects of fathers' unemployment exist and that they are heterogeneous among educational groups. Therefore, paternal unemployment implies long-run intergenerational costs by hindering sons' smooth school-to-work transitions which can be expected to have long-lasting negative labor market consequences.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-675-8
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 583

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Subject: school-to-work transition ; parental unemployment ; youth unemployment

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kind, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2015

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.4419/86788675
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/121464
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET