Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment – Evidence for German Sons

Mäder Miriam (), Regina Riphahn, Schwientek Caroline () and Müller Steffen ()
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Mäder Miriam: Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany
Schwientek Caroline: Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany
Müller Steffen: Halle Institute for Economic Research and Magdeburg University
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Steffen Mueller

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2015, vol. 235, issue 4-5, 355-375

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.

Keywords: Youth unemployment; non-employment; intergenerational mobility; causal effect; Gottschalk method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2015-4-503

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