world) and the limited scope of the country's unemployment insurance scheme, there appears to be ample room for a female … added worker effect as a household strategy against unemployment shocks under economic crises. Using micro data from … household labor force surveys for the 2004-10 period, we examine the extent to which an unemployment shock to the primary male …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate …-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in low birth weight and preterm babies of respectively 1.3 and … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …