Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment - Causal Evidence from Austria

Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

No 14, IHS Working Paper Series from Institute for Advanced Studies

Abstract: We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We use administrative data for Austrian children born between 1974 and 1984 and apply an instrumental variables (IV) identifcation strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days of the adult child by 1 to 2%. The greatest effects are observed for unmarried parents, young children, children of low-education parents, and in families living in capital cities. We also explore various channels of intergenerational unemployment, such as education, income, and job matching by parents.

Keywords: intergenerational transmission; mass layoff; unemployment duration; instrumental variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J62 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2020-04
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