Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62965 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2005,21
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
This paper examines the intergenerational correlation in unemployment in Norway and, by use of the sibling-difference method, separates that correlation into its causal and non-causal parts. Detailed register data covering the entire Norwegian population provide the long panel of data this method requires, and allow experimentation with different definitions of parental unemployment. Confirming existing evidence, I find a substantial intergenerational correlation in unemployment. Approximately half of this is due to observed family heterogeneity. The estimated causal effect is non-significantly negative for all measures of parental unemployment.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational mobility
unemployment
sibling estimators
JEL: 
J62
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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