Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/217041 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IHS Working Paper No. 14
Publisher: 
Institut für Höhere Studien - Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We use administrative data for Austrian children born between 1974 and 1984 and apply an instrumental variables (IV) identifcation strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days of the adult child by 1 to 2%. The greatest effects are observed for unmarried parents, young children, children of low-education parents, and in families living in capital cities. We also explore various channels of intergenerational unemployment, such as education, income, and job matching by parents.
Subjects: 
intergenerational transmission
mass layoff
unemployment duration
instrumental variable
JEL: 
J62
J64
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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