%0 Report
        %A Huttunen, Kristiina
%A Riukula, Krista
        %T Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers
        %D 2019
        %8 2019 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 12788
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12788
        %X We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market. We find evidence supporting both mechanisms: a father's job loss decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children of displaced fathers have lower earnings; however, we find no effects on the outcomes measured before the study choices are made.
        %K childhood income
%K study field
%K social ties
%K education
%K job loss
%K earnings