Book chapter 2016

Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment-Evidence for German Sons

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Maeder, Miriam
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Riphahn, Regina T.
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Schwientek, Caroline
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Müller, Steffen
Determinants and Economic Consequences of Youth Unemployment at the Beginning of the 21st Century
Journal · pp. 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 extetisive margin of unemployment. © Lucius & Lucius Verlagsgesellschaft mbH - Stuttgart -2015.

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Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Närnberg Fau, Erlangen, Germany
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