The intergenerational correlation of employment : is there a role for work culture? / by Gabriela Galassi, David Koll and Lukas Mayr.: FB3-5/2019-33E-PDF

"We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United States, linking data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults. 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 daughters than to sons, and it is higher for low-educated and low-income mothers. Potential mechanisms we were able to rule out included networks, occupation-specific human capital and conditions within the local labor market. By contrast, we provide suggestive evidence for a role-model channel through which labor force participation is transmitted"--Abstract, page ii.

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Department/Agency Bank of Canada.
Title The intergenerational correlation of employment : is there a role for work culture? / by Gabriela Galassi, David Koll and Lukas Mayr.
Series title Bank of Canada staff working paper, 1701-9397 ; 2019-33
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "September 2019."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-27).
Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2019.
©2019
Author / Contributor Galassi, Gabriela, author.
Koll, David, author.
Mayr, Lukas, 1985- author.
Description 1 online resource (ii, 47 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour).
Catalogue number
  • FB3-5/2019-33E-PDF
Subject terms Employment
Models
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