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Job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescent children

Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 6, pp. 1-27

Panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey are used to examine the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of spouses and adolescent children. Estimates from fixed effects models show that the mental health of women (but not men) declines following...

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How families matter for understanding economic inequality

Santos, Cézar; Tertilt, Michele - 2023

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

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Household responses to trade shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2024

We study the impact of Chinese import competition in the 2000s on workers and their households in England and Wales. We document both the direct employment changes of individuals affected by trade exposure, as well as the employment response of individuals whose partner is exposed to trade. We...

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Household responses to trade shocks

Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023

We use large-scale panel data from linked decadal censuses in England and Wales to study the responses of both individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply....

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Stochastic household forecasts by coherent random shares predictions

Keilman, Nico; van Duin, Coen - 2014

We compute a stochastic household forecast for the Netherlands by the random share method. Time series of shares of persons in nine household positions, broken down by sex and five-year age group for the years 1996-2010 are modelled by means of the Hyndman-Booth-Yasmeen product-ratio variant of...

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