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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 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...

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A new look at intergenerational mobility in Germany compared to the US

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2014 - This version: September 2014

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …

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Parental separation and the formation of economic preferences

Dahmann, Sarah Christina; Kettlewell, Nathan; Lam, Jack - 2022

We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have...

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Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes

Zumbuehl, Maria; Dohmen, Thomas; Pfann, Gerard A. - 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...

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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2019

analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …

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Like father, like son? : a comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US

Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018

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The intergenerational effects of unemployment : how parental unemployment affects educational transitions in Germany

Lindemann, Kristina; Gangl, Markus - 2018

This paper studies the intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on students' transitions after completing upper secondary education. Besides estimating the average treatment effect of parental unemployment on transition outcomes, we also aim to identify the economic, psychological or...

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