TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Huttunen, Kristiina
AU  - Riukula, Krista
        TI  - Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers
        PY  - 2019/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 12788
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12788
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - childhood income
KW  - study field
KW  - social ties
KW  - education
KW  - job loss
KW  - earnings
        ER  -