We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United …. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six … weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to …

Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to trade shocks when … factor adjustment is costly. Available methods to estimate those costs rely on panel data, which are seldom available in … developing countries. The authors propose a method to estimate mobility costs using readily obtainable data worldwide. The …

Estimates of labor mobility costs are needed to assess the responses of employment and wages to a trade shock when … factor adjustment is costly. Available methods to estimate those costs rely on panel data, which are seldom available in … developing countries. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate mobility costs using data that is more easily obtainable …