Arbeitspapier

Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers

We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market. We find evidence supporting both mechanisms: a father's job loss decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children of displaced fathers have lower earnings; however, we find no effects on the outcomes measured before the study choices are made.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12788

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Thema
education
social ties
study field
childhood income
job loss
earnings

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Huttunen, Kristiina
Riukula, Krista
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2019

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Huttunen, Kristiina
  • Riukula, Krista
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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