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- Title
Unemployment Duration of Spouses: Evidence From France.
- Authors
Marcassa, Stefania
- Abstract
This paper analyses the conditional probability of leaving unemployment of French married individuals from 1991 to 2002. We find that the effect of spousal labor income on unemployment duration is asymmetric for men and women. In particular, the probability of men to find a job is increasing in wife's labor income, while it is decreasing in husband's earnings for women. To adjust for endogenous selection into marriage, we use the quarter of birth as an instrumental variable for the spousal wage. Finally, we show that introducing a breadwinner stigma in a joint job search model generates the positive correlation observed for men in the data.
- Subjects
UNEMPLOYMENT; CONDITIONAL probability; SPOUSES; WAGES; JOB hunting; INCOME; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 4, p399
- ISSN
1121-7081
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/labr.12042