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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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Evidence of added worker effect from the 2008 economic crisis

Ayhan, Sinem H. - 2015

This paper contributes to the research on interdependencies in spousal labor supply by analyzing labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses ("added worker effect"). It empirically tests the hypothesis of added worker effect relying on a case study on Turkey during the...

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Job displacement, family dynamics and spousal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Schmieder, Julia; Weber, Andrea - 2018

' displacement on wives' labor supply. Our empirical results show that husbands suffer large and persistent employment and earnings … losses over the first 5 years after displacement. But wives' labor supply increases only moderately and they respond … find a small positive effect on the probability of divorce, but no effect of the husband's job displacement on fertility …

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Great Depression and the rise of female employment : a new hypothesis

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - 2018

The cohorts of women born at the turn of the 20th century increased markedly their participation in the labor market when older. These are the first cohorts who worked after their childbearing years. In this paper, we document a link between their work behavior and the Great Depression. We show...

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Husband's unemployment and wife's labor supply : the added worker effect across Europe

Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rulff, Christian - 2017

This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added worker effect. We contribute to the literature by taking an explicit internationally comparative perspective and analyze the variation of the added worker effect across welfare...

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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...

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Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring

Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016

relocation with displacement, which has a negative connotation. This negative view overlooks the multifaceted effects of forced … and micro levels. We argue that forced relocation in urban China is not necessarily equivalent to displacement. Studying …

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Unemployment benefits, risk aversion, and migration incentives

Heitmueller, Axel - 2002

With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the...

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Baby-boom, baby-bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - 2014

The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...

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The dynamics of disability and benefit receipt in Britain

Jones, Melanie; McVicar, Duncan - 2017

This paper exploits rarely-used longitudinal data to examine the impacts of disability onset on benefit receipt in Britain over the period 2004–2012. Differences in the timing of onset are exploited for identification in a framework that combines propensity score matching with...

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