scholarly journals Job Displacement, Family Dynamics and Spousal Labor Supply

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Halla ◽  
Julia Schmieder ◽  
Andrea Michaela Weber
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Job Displacement ◽  
Spousal Labor

scholarly journals Job Displacement, Family Dynamics, and Spousal Labor Supply

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 253-287
Author(s):  
Martin Halla ◽  
Julia Schmieder ◽  
Andrea Weber
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Job Displacement ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Earnings Losses ◽  
Public Transfers ◽  
Spousal Labor ◽  
Important Form

We study the effectiveness of intrahousehold 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 supply increases moderately due to extensive margin responses. Wives’ earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, and in the short-term, public transfers and taxes are a more important form of insurance. We show that the presence of children in the household is a crucial determinant of the wives’ labor supply response. (JEL D13, J12, J16, J22, J31, J63)

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Itzik Fadlon ◽  
Torben Heien Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Driving Mechanism ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Family Labor ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
The Family ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Spousal Labor ◽  
New Evidence

We provide new evidence on households’ labor supply responses to fatal and severe nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we leverage administrative data on Danish families and construct counterfactuals using households that experience the same event a few years apart. Fatal events lead to considerable increases in surviving spouses’ labor supply, which the evidence suggests is driven by families who experience significant income losses. Nonfatal shocks have no meaningful effects on spousal labor supply, consistent with their adequate insurance coverage. The results support self-insurance as a driving mechanism for the family labor supply responses. (JEL D12, D15, G22, I12, J22)

scholarly journals The Impact of Economic Shocks on Workers' Labor Market Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hannah Illing
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Job Displacement ◽  
Market Impact ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Supply Shock ◽  
The Impact

In this dissertation, I analyze the effect of economic shocks on workers' labor market outcomes. In the first part of this thesis (Chapter 2), I investigate a labor supply shock in the form of cross-border migration. Chapters 3 and 4 in the second part of this thesis focus on the labor market impact of job displacement, resulting from a mass layoff, on individual workers’ careers.

scholarly journals Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Goux ◽  
Eric Maurin ◽  
Barbara Petrongolo
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Spousal Labor

We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with substantial leisure complementarity, and specifically cut the nonusual component of their workweek, leaving usual hours unchanged. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier constraints in the organization of their workweek. (JEL J16, J22, K31)

Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd out Spousal Labor Supply?

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Berry Cullen ◽  
Jonathan Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Crowd Out ◽  
Spousal Labor

scholarly journals Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (7) ◽  
pp. 2613-2654 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Autor ◽  
Andreas Kostøl ◽  
Magne Mogstad ◽  
Bradley Setzler
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Instrumental Variables ◽  
Revealed Preferences ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Family Labor ◽  
Consumption Insurance ◽  
Welfare Implications ◽  
Spousal Labor ◽  
Instrumental Variables Approach

There is no evaluation of the consequences of Disability Insurance (DI) receipt that captures the effects on households’ net income and consumption expenditure, family labor supply, or benefits from other programs. Combining detailed register data from Norway with an instrumental variables approach based on random assignment to appellant judges, we comprehensively assess how DI receipt affects these understudied outcomes. To consider the welfare implications of the findings from this instrumental variables approach, we estimate a dynamic model of household behavior that translates employment, reapplication, and savings decisions into revealed preferences for leisure and consumption. The model-based results suggest that on average, the willingness to pay for DI receipt is positive and sizable. Because spousal labor supply strongly buffers the household income and consumption effects of DI allowances, the estimated willingness to pay for DI receipt is smaller for married than single applicants. (JEL D12, D14, H55, I38, J14, J22)

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