This paper utilizes the 1968-2019 survey waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze the added worker effect for wives of husbands who lose their job through no fault of their own. Specifically, we focus on the potential changes to the added worker effect over time. For wives who were...

This paper analyses whether employment termination has an impact on marital stability. Using discrete survival analysis techniques, we show that a husband’s involuntary job loss is associated with an increase in the risk of divorce by roughly 70 percent in the following period. The estimated...