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Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers

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  • Huttunen, Kristiina

    (Aalto University)

  • Riukula, Krista

    (ETLA - The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy)

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We study the effect of parental job loss on children's outcomes using administrative data from Finland. We focus on two channels through which parental job loss can affect children's careers: 1) by affecting the child's field of study choices and 2) by weakening social ties to the labor market. We find evidence supporting both mechanisms: a father's job loss decreases the likelihood of the child choosing the father's field of study or finding employment in the father's plant. Children of displaced fathers have lower earnings; however, we find no effects on the outcomes measured before the study choices are made.

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  • Huttunen, Kristiina & Riukula, Krista, 2019. "Parental Job Loss and Children's Careers," IZA Discussion Papers 12788, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    Keywords

    childhood income; study field; social ties; education; job loss; earnings;
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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