Based on matched employer-employee data from Norway, we analyze the effects of worker displacement in 1986-1987 on … their children's earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an exogenous earnings shock we seek to … identify whether family resources have a direct effect on children's economic outcome. As in previous Scandinavian studies, we …

Based on matched employer-employee data from Norway, we analyze the effects of worker displacement in 1986-1987 on … their children's earnings in 1999-2001. Using displacement of fathers to indicate an exogenous earnings shock we seek to … identify whether family resources have a direct effect on children's economic outcome. As in previous Scandinavian studies, we …

Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the …