We study the effectiveness of intra-household insurance among married couples when the husband loses his job due to a mass layoff or plant closure. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show that husbands suffer persistent employment and earnings losses, while wives' labor...

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...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the factors affecting geographical proximity with elderly parents of married women aged 30-40s in South Korea. Using the KLoWF 2010 data, results from multinomial logistic regression analyses show that the factors may vary in terms of needs and...