TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Mäder, Miriam
AU  - Müller, Steffen
AU  - Riphahn, Regina T.
AU  - Schwientek, Caroline
        TI  - Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
        PY  - 2014/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8513
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8513
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - Gottschalk method
KW  - causal effect
KW  - intergenerational mobility
KW  - non-employment
KW  - youth unemployment
        ER  -