Arbeitspapier
The intergenerational correlation of employment: Is there a role for work culture?
We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United States, linking data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to daughters than to sons, and it is higher for low-educated and low-income mothers. Potential mechanisms we were able to rule out included networks, occupation-specific human capital and conditions within the local labor market. By contrast, we provide suggestive evidence for a role-model channel through which labor force participation is transmitted.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2019-33
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- Thema
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Labour markets
Econometric and statistical methods
Economic models
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Galassi, Gabriela
Koll, David
Mayr, Lukas
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Canada
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Ottawa
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.34989/swp-2019-33
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Galassi, Gabriela
- Koll, David
- Mayr, Lukas
- Bank of Canada
Entstanden
- 2019
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