affected in terms of parental health, labor market outcomes and separations. Limited effects on family disposable income … suggest that generous unemployment insurance and a dual-earner norm shield families from financial distress, which together …

This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child … at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit … mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of exogenous variation in parental labor market shocks. We find that …

developments in the labor market and changes in the structure and preferences of the family. The former include changes in … demography, productivity growth and international linkages as well as increased part-time work, new types of labor …-market contracts and tendencies toward an insider-outsider divide in the labor market. Changes in family structure include a rise in …