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.
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