Intergenerational transmission of unemployment: Evidence for German sons

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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment outcomes. In agreement with most of the small international literature we do not find a positive causal effect for intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and extensive margin of unemployment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IWQW Discussion Papers ; No. 12/2014

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
• Subject: youth unemployment ; non-employment ; intergenerational mobility ; causal effect ; Gottschalk method

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mäder, Miriam ; Müller, Steffen ; Riphahn, Regina T. ; Schwientek, Caroline
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Wirtschaftspolitik und Quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung (IWQW)
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/102950
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