the wife when confronting the unemployment of the head of the family in Brazil. Therefore, we used continuous Pnad …When the principal responsible for the family loses his or her job, it is hoped that, in attempting to maintain the … level of family income, another member of the family will become part of the workforce; when this occurs, it has an added …

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 …

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

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 employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …