Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

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URL:	https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/37205
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-372055
Document Type:	Working paper
Year of publication:	2014
The title of a journal, publication series:	ZEW Discussion Papers
Volume:	14-077
Place of publication:	Mannheim
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC publication series:	Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Subject:	330 Economics
Classification:	JEL: J62 , C21 , C26,
Keywords (English):	Youth unemployment , non-employment , intergenerational mobility , causal effect , Gottschalk method
Abstract:	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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BASE: Mäder, Miriam ; Müller, Steffen ; Riphahn, Regina T. ; Schwientek, Caroline

Google Scholar: Mäder, Miriam ; Müller, Steffen ; Riphahn, Regina T. ; Schwientek, Caroline

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