Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Evidence from Unemployment Patterns
通过分析父子失业历史的关系，发现父亲曾失业的子女未来失业概率几乎翻倍，且该影响在控制教育、能力等因素后仍显著，为代际福利传递提供了新证据。
Recent papers have examined the intergenerational transmission of well‐being by looking at the relationship between parents' and children's income. However, by concentrating on those who are working these studies exclude some of the very poorest in society, the unemployed. In this paper we extend the empirical work on intergenerational welfare in the UK by looking at the links between fathers' and sons' unemployment histories. Using an approach which takes account of both incidence and intensity of son's unemployment, we provide further evidence showing that parental background is an important determinant of a child's future welfare. A son whose father was unemployed 20 years earlier is almost twice as likely to be unemployed as a son whose father was not unemployed. Furthermore, this dependency remains significant after controlling for a range of son's characteristics including education, ability and family composition.