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This paper investigates the responsiveness of women’s labor supply to their husband’s loss of employment – the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative...
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This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added worker effect. We contribute to the literature by taking an explicit internationally comparative perspective and analyze the variation of the added worker effect across welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945223
This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's loss of employment – the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative perspective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050241
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 …
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's unemployment. However the effect is not contemporaneous; it appears with a quarter of lag and remains existent only for two …
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This paper utilizes the 1968-2019 survey waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze the added worker effect for wives of husbands who lose their job through no fault of their own. Specifically, we focus on the potential changes to the added worker effect over time. For wives who were...
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We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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's employment is less cyclical and more symmetric compared to men. In recessions, while some women lose their employment, others …
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cyclical and more symmetric than men’s. Without the AWE, married women’s employment would be as volatile as men and display …
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