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 … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued …

We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …

In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and … environment compared to the crisis years. The sharp decrease in unemployment probably resulted from the introduction of several … targeted policies and embellishment of unemployment statistics. …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …

This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed …

This field experiment explores whether single and married female job candidates' un/employment histories differentially …' discrimination against, and/or preference for, candidates who are un/employed vary with the duration of unemployment spells. Resumes …. Candidates' experiences of unemployment and declaration of marital status are carefully controlled. Over 7000 applications are …

This paper estimates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse …. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both … family perspective. …