Journal Article

The effects of father’s worklessness on young adults in the UK

Authors

Publication date

Jan 2015

Summary

Using the United Kingdom household longitudinal study (UKHLS), this paper shows the effect of experiencing a father being out of work on a range of labour market outcomes as young adults. Children of non-working fathers work less and are less satisfied while working despite similar wages and contract types. A sensitivity analysis shows that this effect of father’s worklessness is robust to the inclusion of strong unobserved confounders, indicating non-spuriousness. Support is found for the idea that young adults who grew up experiencing their father’s worklessness develop a different, less negative attitude, towards being out of work.

Published in

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Volume

4: 2

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-9012-4-2

ISSN

16

Subjects

Young People, Labour Market, Unemployment, Well Being, and Sociology Of Households

Links

http://www.izajoels.com/content/4/1/2

Notes

Open Journal Article; © 2015 Zwysen; licensee Springer.; This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.

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