We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United …. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six … weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to …

participates in nonstandard work arrangements. Such arrangements tend to lack long-term employment contracts and are often referred … of employment status and labor market slack. Using original survey data, we find that as of 2015 roughly 37 percent of … elicits an individual's employment status according to the definitions of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While not the …