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Marriage and divorce : the role of labor market institutions
Schulz, Bastian; Siuda, Fabian - 2020
Marriage and divorce decisions are influenced by the institutional environment they are made in. One example is the … quantify the importance of household-level insurance for marriage and divorce by exploiting an exogenous increase in the need …
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Stable income, stable family
Lindo, Jason M.; Regmi, Krishna; Swensen, Isaac D. - 2022
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …. In particular, they mitigate increases in divorce associated with men's layoffs; increases in separations associated with …
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On households and unemployment insurance
Choi, Sekyu; Valladares‐Esteban, Arnau - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 1, pp. 437-469
We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of household they live in: some agents live alone while others live with their spouses as a family. Our exercise is motivated by the fact that married individuals can rely on spousal...
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Family job search, wage bargaining, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934491
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Family job search, wage bargainings, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935195
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Family job search, wage bargaining, and optimal unemployment insurance
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among equally productive risk-averse workers. Marital status as well as spousal labor market status matter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921136
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Marriage and divorce : the role of unemployment insurance
Schulz, Bastian; Siuda, Fabian - In: Journal of population economics : international … 36 (2023) 4, pp. 2277-2308
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529394
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The quality-weighted matching function : did the German labour market reforms trade off efficiency against job quality?
Gartner, Hermann; Rothe, Thomas; Weber, Enzo - 2019
We evaluate the quantity-quality trade-off on the labor market by estimating an augmented matching function weighting the matches by quality measures. We use the approach to evaluate the German labor market reforms conducted between 2003 and 2005. Indeed, we find a significant quantity-quality...
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The impact of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States
Brown, Dan; De Cao, Elisabetta - 2018
We study the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment in the United States for the period 2004-12, at the county level. We use a new administrative dataset containing every report of child abuse and neglect made to the Child Protective Services, and identify the effect using a Bartik...
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Can a search model predict the effects of an increase in the benefit duration? : evidence from the Portuguese unemployment insurance reform
Novo, Alvaro A.; Silva, André C. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 6 (2017) 3, pp. 1-14
We test the predictions of an equilibrium search model about the effects of an increase in the maximum duration of unemployment benefits. We use the 1999 unemployment insurance reform of Portugal, a quasi-natural experiment. The reform increased the maximum duration of benefits for three groups...
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