Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Generational income mobility in North America and Europe: an introduction
- 2 A model of intergenerational mobility variation over time and place
- 3 Equal opportunity and intergenerational mobility: going beyond intergenerational income transition matrices
- 4 Intergenerational mobility for whom? The experience of high- and low-earning sons in international perspective
- 5 What do trends in the intergenerational economic mobility of sons and daughters in the United States mean?
- 6 Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain
- 7 Intergenerational mobility in Britain: new evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
- 8 Non-linear patterns of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States
- 9 Family structure and labor market success: the influence of siblings and birth order on the earnings of young adults in Norway, Finland, and Sweden
- 10 New evidence on the intergenerational correlation in welfare participation
- 11 Intergenerational influences on the receipt of unemployment insurance in Canada and Sweden
- 12 Unequal opportunities and the mechanisms of social inheritance
- Index
- References
11 - Intergenerational influences on the receipt of unemployment insurance in Canada and Sweden
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Generational income mobility in North America and Europe: an introduction
- 2 A model of intergenerational mobility variation over time and place
- 3 Equal opportunity and intergenerational mobility: going beyond intergenerational income transition matrices
- 4 Intergenerational mobility for whom? The experience of high- and low-earning sons in international perspective
- 5 What do trends in the intergenerational economic mobility of sons and daughters in the United States mean?
- 6 Changes in intergenerational mobility in Britain
- 7 Intergenerational mobility in Britain: new evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
- 8 Non-linear patterns of intergenerational mobility in Germany and the United States
- 9 Family structure and labor market success: the influence of siblings and birth order on the earnings of young adults in Norway, Finland, and Sweden
- 10 New evidence on the intergenerational correlation in welfare participation
- 11 Intergenerational influences on the receipt of unemployment insurance in Canada and Sweden
- 12 Unequal opportunities and the mechanisms of social inheritance
- Index
- References
Summary
The objective of this chapter is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by having had a parent who also collected UI. There are a number of competing – but not mutually exclusive – explanations for an intergenerational correlation in the receipt of social programs. These include the intergenerational transmission of information about how programs work, or more generally learning and the formation of habits. But, as Chapter 10 suggests, a major methodological challenge in documenting a causal intergenerational link involves determining the extent to which any observed patterns are due to intergenerational correlation of incomes, occupations, or other (potentially unobservable) factors common to parents and children that influence long-term labor market success. If these factors cannot be controlled for, there is a risk of overstating the causal impact of parental activities on the adult outcomes of their children.
The research summarized in this chapter fits into a number of related literatures dealing with intergenerational dynamics. These are discussed in more detail in the next section in the context of a schematic overview of the analysis. The empirical work is based upon longitudinal administrative data associated with the Canadian and Swedish income tax systems that have been linked intergenerationally, and focuses on the pattern of UI use by a cohort of young men and how it relates to the UI use of their fathers.
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