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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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 253-287 |
Number of pages | 35 |
Journal | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2020 |
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Halla, M. (Creator), Schmieder, J. (Creator) & Weber, A. (Creator), ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2020
DOI: 10.3886/e112184v1, https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/112184/version/V1/view?path=/openicpsr/112184/fcr:versions/V1/figures&type=folder
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