Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0

Author-Name: Miriam Mäder
Author-X-Name-First: Miriam
Author-X-Name-Last: Mäder

Author-Name: Steffen Müller
Author-X-Name-First: Steffen
Author-X-Name-Last: Müller

Author-Name: Regina T. Riphahn
Author-X-Name-First: Regina T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Riphahn

Author-Name: Caroline Schwientek
Author-X-Name-First:Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwientek

Title: Intergenerational transmission of unemployment – evidence for German sons

	
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.
Length:  45 pages
Creation-Date:  2014-09
File-URL: http://www.bgpe.de/texte/DP/155_MaederMuellerRiphahnSchwientek.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2014
Number: 155
Classification-JEL: J62, C21, C26
Keywords: youth unemployment, non-employment, intergenerational mobility, causal effect, Gottschalk method
Handle: RePEc:bav:wpaper:155_MaederMuellerRiphahnSchwientek