Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/215329 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12933
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
short- and long-term
Intergenerational transmissions
employment
self-employment
EU-SILC data
JEL: 
D65
J62
E24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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