Unemployment information and wives’ labor supply responses to husbands’ job loss in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 1176-1194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fung-Mey Huang ◽  
Yir-Hueih Luh ◽  
Fung-Yea Huang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Job Loss

scholarly journals Employment recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Handwerker ◽  
Peter Meyer ◽  
Joseph Piacentini ◽  
Michael Schultz ◽  
Leo Sveikauskas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Recovery ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Partial Recovery ◽  
The U.S

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic’s impact on the U.S. labor market is unprecedented. This article reviews economic research on recent pandemic-related job losses in the United States in order to understand the prospects for employment recovery. The research examines telework use, the incidence of job loss, disruptions in labor supply, and progress toward recovery. Massive temporary layoffs drove a spike in unemployment, and subsequent recalls of unemployed workers drove a rapid but partial recovery. The prospects for full recovery are murkier, both because the fraction of the remaining unemployed expecting to be recalled is decreasing and because the pandemic’s future course remains uncertain.

scholarly journals Husband’s Unemployment and Wife’s Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe

ILR Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1201-1231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Bredtmann ◽  
Sebastian Otten ◽  
Christian Rulff
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Added Worker Effect ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Benefit System ◽  
Women’S Labor Supply

This article investigates the responsiveness of women’s labor supply to their husband’s job loss—the so-called added worker effect. The authors contribute to the literature by taking an explicit internationally comparative perspective in analyzing the variation of the added worker effect across welfare regimes. Using longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey covering 28 European countries from 2004 to 2013, they find evidence of an added worker effect, which, however, varies over both the business cycle and the different welfare regimes in Europe. The latter result might be explained, in part, by differences in the design of the unemployment benefit system across countries, which create different incentives for the labor supply of wives of unemployed men.

scholarly journals Knowledge of Future Job Loss and Implications for Unemployment Insurance

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (7) ◽  
pp. 1778-1823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Hendren
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Unemployment Insurance ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Spousal Labor ◽  
Market Learning

This paper studies the implications of individuals’ knowledge of future job loss for the existence of an unemployment insurance (UI) market. Learning about job loss leads to consumption decreases and spousal labor supply increases. This suggests existing willingness to pay estimates for UI understate its value. But it yields new estimation methodologies that account for and exploit responses to learning about future job loss. Although the new willingness to pay estimates exceed previous estimates, I estimate much larger frictions imposed by private information. This suggests privately traded UI policies would be too adversely selected to be profitable, at any price. (JEL D82, D83, G22, J22, J64, J65)

Age Differences in Coping With Job Loss

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica D. Ermann ◽  
Kurt Kraiger
Keyword(s):  
Age Differences ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Coping With Job Loss
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