Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

This paper estimates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse …. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both …

This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on …) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect … of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in …