Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons

Miriam Mäder (), Steffen Müller (), Regina Riphahn and Caroline Schwientek ()
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Miriam Mäder: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Steffen Müller: IWH Halle
Caroline Schwientek: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Steffen Mueller

No 8513, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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 offspring's 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: Gottschalk method; causal effect; intergenerational mobility; non-employment; youth unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C26 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2014-09
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Published - published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 235 (4-5), 355–375

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Journal Article: Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment – Evidence for German Sons (2015)
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