This research report presents the findings from a study that investigated the extent of parental worklessness in families with young and teenage children, and determined how parental worklessness impacts on children’s cognitive ability, education attainment, behaviours, attitude to school, academic aspirations and experience of the transition from school to work. Drawing on evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) and the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE), the research included a focus on children in primary education (MCS) to gauge early potential scarring effects from household worklessness and on young people (LSYPE), to consider the transition from school to work and to identify any inter-generational link between parental worklessness and the young person’s likelihood of being Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET).
Authors
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Anna Vignoles
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Institute of Education
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Institute for Social and Economic Research
The Strategic Society Centre
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National Centre for Social Research
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Victoria Brown
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Samantha Parsons
Report details
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- Department for Education
Suggested citation
Barnes, M et al. (2012). Intergenerational transmission of worklessness: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort and the Longitudinal Study of Young People In England. London: Department for Education. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/intergenerational-transmission-worklessness-evidence-millennium-cohort-and (accessed: 30 June 2024).
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