The Intergenerational Transmission of Joblessness

Overview

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.

Objectives

Project results may provide evidence-based knowledge for the development of effective interventions to avert the persistence of joblessness across generations.