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 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 … 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 extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …

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 …