Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons

Miriam Mäder, Steffen Müller, Regina Riphahn and Caroline Schwientek
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Steffen Mueller

No 694, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

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)
JEL-codes: C21 C26 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 p.
Date: 2014
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem and nep-lab
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