Origen social y paro: ¿importa la ocupación de los padres para evitar el desempleo?

The aim of the paper is to know whether the social origin influences the probability of being unemployed and, secondly, if so, to find out whether that influence remains even controlling for educational attainment. The third objective is to determine whether the influence of social origin varies depending on the level of education. 49 surveys from the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research carried out between 2013 and 2017 have been handled, and a linear probability model has been applied. The results show that there is a clear effect of social origin on unemployment, and that this effect occurs mainly indirectly, through the educational level. However, social origin continues to have an effect even controlling for education among university graduates (non engineerings) and among those with lower secondary or less education.