This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high …-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children … persistency and network measurement error. Only when children enter the labor market, we find that friends of parents have a …

-headed families with dependent children in which neither partner was in paid employment. Selected women on family benefits who were … partnered with men receiving unemployment benefits) were randomly invited to participate in an interview process designed to …

Australian families with dependent children in which no adult was in paid employment. Selected women on family benefits (who were … partnered with men receiving unemployment benefits) were randomly invited to participate in an interview process designed to …

Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance … a child whose parents lose a job prior to the child's labor market entry is, on average, induced to work 6% more in the … 3 years following labor market entry than a child whose parents lose a job after the child's entry (where labor market …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

Okun's law is formulated as the ratio between GDP and unemployment (UE): β = f(GDP/UE). It is used to investigate the … replaced the United States UE with employment (EM) for the years 1977 to 2021 and examined how employment changed relative to … "jobless recovery" is that employment should not increase more rapidly than the real economy. …