The reproduction of benefit receipt: Disentangling the intergenerational transmission

Boschman, Sanne; Maas, Ineke; Kristiansen, Marcus H.; Vrooman, J.C.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.02.009

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“…19 The intergenerational correlation in welfare participation in Australia is in line that in other countries. Boschman et al (2019), for example, find that, in the Netherlands, people are 1.9 times more likely to receive welfare benefits if their mothers also receive benefits than if neither parent does; this ratio climbs to 2.6 if, in addition, their fathers also receive benefits. Similarly, Page (2004 p. 231) Parental welfare participation is also transmitted to young people through the curriculum choices and educational achievements of those who do complete high school.…”

Section: Overview: the Pathways To Intergenerational Welfare Receiptmentioning

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“…Explanations for intergenerational welfare participation can be classified into three main categories (see Stenberg 2000; Bartholomae et al 2004;Page 2004;and Boschman et al 2019 for reviews). Cultural (or behavioral) explanations center on the role of childhood welfare in reducing the information and/or social (stigma) costs associated with welfare participation in adulthood.…”

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“… See Cobb-Clark et al (2017) for a discussion of studies investigating the causal effect of access to welfare on welfare participation. 5 SeeBoschman et al (2019) who adopt an approach similar to Gottschalk's in an attempt to isolate causal mediation effects.…”

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Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare

Bubonya

Cobb‐Clark

2021

Economics of Education Review

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This research studies the pathways that link welfare receipt across generations in Australia. Our analysis not only calculates the intergenerational correlation in welfare, but also quantify the portion of that correlation that operates through key mechanisms. Our data come from administrative welfare records for young Australians (aged 23-26) and their parents over nearly two decades which have been linked to survey responses from young people at age 18. Together, the pathways we consider jointly account for nearly a third (32.2 percent) of the intergenerational correlation in welfare participation and more than half (52.6 percent) of the link between parental welfare participation and young people's total welfare benefits. The primary mechanism linking welfare receipt across generations is the failure to complete high school. Young Australians in welfare-reliant families experience more disruptions in their schooling through school changes, residential mobility, school expulsions and school suspensions. They also receive less financial support from their families. Both of these negatively affect their chances of completing high school and avoiding the welfare roll. Young Australians' risk-taking behavior-for example, smoking, illicit drug use, delinquency and pregnancy-is also a key pathway in transmitting welfare reliance across generations. Physical and mental health, academic achievement, and work-welfare attitudes, in contrast, have a more modest role in intergenerational welfare. The lack of strong evidence that work-welfare attitudes drive the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt is at odds with cultural explanations of intergenerational welfare which attribute welfare dependency to the values that children acquire from their parents and neighbors. Taken together, our results present a clear focus for policy action; schools, communities and governments must find better ways to support the education of children in welfarereliant families. The importance of parental financial support in transmitting disadvantage across generations calls into question the wisdom of Australian policies that increasingly shift the financial burden of supporting young people from the public purse to their families.

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Section: Overview: the Pathways To Intergenerational Welfare Receiptmentioning

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Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare

Bubonya

Cobb‐Clark

2021

Economics of Education Review

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“…The current literature does not include studies on how intergenerational transmission affects Chinese frontline workers, whether they are from middle-income groups or have less-desirable jobs. The theory of intergenerational transmission emphasizes high levels of similarity in beliefs [12], norms [13], values [14], attitudes and behaviors [15] between two generations. Past studies on intergenerational transmission have focused on violence, marriage, and occupation.…”

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Intergenerational Transmission of Occupation: A Qualitative Inquiry into Frontline Factory Workers in China

Omar

Ning

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Sustainability

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The intergenerational transmission of an occupation between two generations of frontline workers in Chinese factories shows a copy–paste phenomenon, whereby a new generation of workers not only undertakes the same work as their parents but also remains at the same level of technical ability. This phenomenon runs contrary to the literature on the intergenerational transmission of occupations and is unsuitable for China’s national conditions. More importantly, it restricts the sustainable development of the manufacturing industry in China. This study used a grounded theory approach to interview 30 workers to identify and analyze the factors and influences that created this new generation. The results show that the workers’ drawing of comparisons between and within generations not only limits their technical skills but also affects subsequent generations of workers through the intergenerational transmission of occupation. We draw on our findings to discuss the reasons for and impacts of these comparisons and make suggestions for future research.

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“…by reducing the stigma or information costs associated with welfare receipt (seeBoschman et al, 2019, for a review). Consequently, we test whether young people with fathers who were subject to the MOI are: (i) less supportive of generous unemployment benefits; (ii) more likely to view having an education, job, and ambition as important for getting ahead in life; and (iii) less likely to believe that having educated parents is the key to life success (Panel B).…”

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The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities

2020

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We use a quasi-experimental design and national administrative data to analyze the intergenerational effects of introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training) in addition to job search. The young adults (aged 23-28) we study were in early adolescence in 1999 when the MOI was introduced. Using a regression discontinuity approach, we find that those young adults whose fathers were subject to the MOI have a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed investigation suggests that completion of the mandated activities, role modeling, changes in attitudes, improved health, and greater support and stability are potential channels for this effect.

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The reproduction of benefit receipt: Disentangling the intergenerational transmission

Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare

Pathways of Disadvantage: Unpacking the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare

Intergenerational Transmission of Occupation: A Qualitative Inquiry into Frontline Factory Workers in China

The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities

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