Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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 extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offsprings' employment …