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Martin Halla, Julia Schmieder, Andrea Weber
In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 12 (2020), 4, S. 253-287
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.
Topics: Distribution, Gender, Labor and employment
JEL-Classification: D13;J12;J16;J22;J31;J63
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.20180671
Online Appendix
https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/app.20180671.appx
Data Set
https://doi.org/10.3886/E112184V1