Replication data for: Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa

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Project Citation:

Magruder, Jeremy R. Replication data for: Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2010. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113742V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper examines the importance of network-based intergenerational correlations in South Africa. I use longitudinal data on young South Africans to examine the covariance of children's employment with the usefulness of parents in their job search. I find that fathers serve as useful network connections to their sons (not daughters), and that mothers do not seem to be useful network connections. The father-son effect is robust to alternate explanations of specific human capital and correlated networks. The size of this effect is large. Present fathers' utility as network connections may be responsible for a one-third increase in their sons' employment rates. (JEL D31, J12, J13, J24, J62, O15, Z13)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
      J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
      O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
      Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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