The Intergenerational Transmission of Joblessness

Grant number: DP160101063 | Funding period: 2016 - 2022

Completed

Abstract

The project aims to unpack the mechanisms, channels and factors that drive joblessness from one generation to the next in Australia and across Europe, Asia and the United States. By creating a rich longitudinal dataset on families across the selected countries, it plans to challenge existing theories by asking whether aspects of family’s work–welfare trajectories, values and dynamics play out differently across multiple nations, over time and in different labour market, institutional and family contexts. Project results may provide evidence-based knowledge for the development of effective interventions to avert the persistence of joblessness across generations.

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Returns to parental higher education across the wage distribution, gender, and the life course

I Mooi-Reci, M Yaish, L Craig

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Non-standard employment and underemployment at labor market entry and their impact on later wage trajectories

S Fauser, I Mooi-Reci

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Using data from the Australian Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001–2020), we examine how comb..

Visualizing Underemployment Dynamics in Australia: Combining Sankey and Sequence Analysis Plots

S Fauser, I Mooi-Reci

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This visualization uses annual data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey to illustrate the d..

Linked labor force trajectories: Empirical evidence from dual-parent families in the United States and Australia

Irma Mooi-Reci, Tim F Liao, Matthew Curry

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To what extent are parents’ and children’s labor force trajectories associated and what factors shape these intergenerational labo..

Jobless parents, unhealthy children? How past exposure to parental joblessness influences children's future health

I Mooi-Reci, M Wooden

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Rationale: Despite a growing body of work investigating the combined effects of maternal and paternal joblessness for children's o..

Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness

M Curry, I Mooi-Reci, M Wooden

2022-03-01

Studies of intergenerational stratification and mobility have long called for investigation of the joint role of mothers and fathe..

The employment consequences of growing up in a dual-parent jobless household: A comparison of Australia and the United States

I Mooi-Reci, M Wooden, M Curry

2020-08-01

Despite the relevance of parents’ economic participation for children's future outcomes, few studies have considered the joint con..

The cumulative disadvantage of unemployment: Longitudinal evidence across gender and age at first unemployment in Germany

Anna Manzoni, Irma Mooi-Reci

2020-06-24

Unemployment is an important predictor of one’s future employment success. Yet, much about the endurance of unemployment effects o..

Intergenerational Mobility Research: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Irma Mooi-Reci

2020-05-31

This article discusses major challenges facing intergenerational mobility research in three main domains: (i) the (dis)connection ..

Dual-Parent Joblessness, Household Work and Its Moderating Role on Children's Joblessness as Young Adults

Irma Mooi-Reci, Lyn Craig

2020-01-10

Using data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, we examine whether living in jobless famil..

Breaking the Family Chain of Joblessness

Irma Mooi-Reci, Mark Wooden, Matthew Curry

2019-11-24

New research finds children of parents who are both jobless can experience long-term disadvantage, but targeted policy can break t..

Parental joblessness and the moderating role of a university degree on the school-to-work transition in Australia and the United States

Matthew Curry, Irma Mooi-Reci, Mark Wooden

2019-07-01

Does parental joblessness delay young adults’ school-to-work transitions? If so, can a university degree moderate this relationshi..

Does having jobless parents damage a child's future?

Irma Mooi-Reci, Mark Wooden, Matthew Curry

2019-01-01

Growing up in a household where parents are jobless exposes many Australian children to a lifelong cycle of disadvantage. This stu..

Why Parental Unemployment Matters for Children’s Educational Attainment: Empirical Evidence from the Netherlands

I Mooi-Reci, Bart Bakker, Matthew Curry, Mark Wooden

2019-01-01

This study examines the effect of parents’ unemployment on their children’s subsequent educational attainment. Its theoretical sig..

Measuring Sequence Quality

Anna Manzoni, I Mooi-Reci

2018-10-06

This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for anal..

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2018-01-01

Binary Sequence Dynamics applied to Career Quality

A Manzoni, I MOOI-RECI

2016-01-01

Intergenerational Occupational Status Reproduction: A Cross-National and Historical Analysis

I MOOI-RECI, H Ganzeboom

2016-01-01

Intergenerational Occupational Status Reproduction: A Cross-National and Historical Analysis

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2016-01-01

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