This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …

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 is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …

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 …