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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment : Evidence for German Sons
Mäder, Miriam - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046223
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Parental Investment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes
Zumbühl, Maria - 2013
We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079165
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Intergenerational Transmission of Language Capital and Economic Outcomes
Casey, Teresa; Dustmann, Christian - 2021
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can follow their children after they have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316798
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Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany : Moving with Natives or Stuck in Their Neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German … Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover …, I investigate to what extent the lower mobility among immigrants in Germany is due to 'ethnic capital' as suggested by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149506
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers in Canada and Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2011
The intergenerational transmission of employers between fathers and sons is a common feature of labour markets in Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their fathers. This is strongly associated with the first jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127955
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Smart and Dangerous : How Cognitive Skills Drive the Intergenerational Transmission of Retaliation
Henry, Ruby - 2011
A need exists to understand how people develop an aggressive, retaliatory conflict resolution policy vs. a more passive reconciliation stance. I contribute a choice-theoretic model that explains how cognitive skills drive the transmission of conflict resolution policies. A childﾒs resolution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131920
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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital Under Post-War Distress : The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia
Kahanec, Martin - 2010
In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as a natural experiment, we compare three groups that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139330
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Intergenerational Transmission of Education : An Alert to Empirical Implementation
Pereira, Pedro Telhado - 2010
The intergenerational transmission of education is certainly a problem that continues to challenge most countries. The level of education that an individual rises to is linked to the education level(s) of her/his parents. This note serves as an alert to researchers undertaking empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139956
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
Lundborg, Petter - 2011
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118516
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Following in Your Father's Footsteps : A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and Their Sons
Amin, Vikesh - 2011
We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level when estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120135