age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime … employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant …

and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … intergenerational unemployment transmission. This outcome is robust to alternative data structures and to tests at the intensive and …

unemployment on child labor market and education outcomes. We first describe correlation patterns and then use sibling fixed … effects and the Gottschalk (1996) method to identify the causal effects of paternal unemployment. We find different patterns … for sons and daughters. Paternal unemployment does not seem to causally affect the outcomes of sons. In contrast, it …