%0 Report
        %A Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio
%A Molina, José Alberto
%A Velilla, Jorge
        %T Short- vs Long-Term Intergenerational Correlations of Employment and Self-Employment in Europe
        %D 2020
        %8 2020 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12933
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp12933
        %X This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Using longitudinal data for the period 2003-2016, fixed effect estimates show a significant short-term correlation between the current employment status of parents and that of their children. However, short-term correlation of self-employment seems to be driven only by father-son correlations. Conversely, using the special module on Intergenerational Transmissions for the year 2011, estimates show a strong and significant correlation between respondents' self-employment status, and that of their parents when respondents were 14 years old. This suggests that self-employment decisions are not related to short-term family labor supply decisions, but to long-term intergenerational transmission.
        %K self-employment
%K short- and long-term
%K Intergenerational transmissions
%K EU-SILC data
%K employment