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- Title
The effect of unemployment on social participation of spouses: evidence from plant closures in Germany.
- Authors
Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai
- Abstract
This paper estimates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both directly and indirectly affected spouses. Private social activities of either spouse, however, are only found to increase if the indirectly affected spouse is not working. Conflict prevention strategies or habituation may help to rationalise this finding. Our results imply that active labour market policies should account for spillover effects within couples and adopt a family perspective.
- Subjects
GERMANY; SOCIAL participation; PLANT shutdowns; UNEMPLOYMENT; LABOR market; SPOUSES
- Publication
Empirical Economics, 2020, Vol 58, Issue 2, p815
- ISSN
0377-7332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00181-018-1542-4