scholarly journals Spousal Labor Supply, Caregiving, and the Value of Disability Insurance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siha Lee
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Spousal Labor

Family Labor Supply Responses to Severe Health Shocks: Evidence from Danish Administrative Records

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Itzik Fadlon ◽  
Torben Heien Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Driving Mechanism ◽  
Health Shocks ◽  
Family Labor ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
The Family ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Spousal Labor ◽  
New Evidence

We provide new evidence on households’ labor supply responses to fatal and severe nonfatal health shocks in the short run and medium run. To identify causal effects, we leverage administrative data on Danish families and construct counterfactuals using households that experience the same event a few years apart. Fatal events lead to considerable increases in surviving spouses’ labor supply, which the evidence suggests is driven by families who experience significant income losses. Nonfatal shocks have no meaningful effects on spousal labor supply, consistent with their adequate insurance coverage. The results support self-insurance as a driving mechanism for the family labor supply responses. (JEL D12, D15, G22, I12, J22)

scholarly journals Return-to-Work Policies and Labor Supply in Disability Insurance Programs

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 272-276
Author(s):  
Arezou Zaresani
Keyword(s):  
Return To Work ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Disability Insurance ◽  
Sharp Discontinuity

Return-to-work policies in disability insurance (DI) programs allow beneficiaries to collect a portion of their benefits while working. I investigate whether a large increase in incentives to work in a return-to-work policy could induce benefit recipients to increase their labor supply. I quantify the effects on earnings and labor force participation using a sharp discontinuity in the induced incentives to work at the month of the policy change in a DI program in Canada. Using administrative data, I document that large incentives to work could induce beneficiaries to increase their labor supply both in intensive and extensive margins.

scholarly journals Job Displacement, Family Dynamics and Spousal Labor Supply

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Halla ◽  
Julia Schmieder ◽  
Andrea Michaela Weber
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Job Displacement ◽  
Spousal Labor

scholarly journals Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 252-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Goux ◽  
Eric Maurin ◽  
Barbara Petrongolo
Keyword(s):  
Labor Supply ◽  
Spousal Labor

We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with substantial leisure complementarity, and specifically cut the nonusual component of their workweek, leaving usual hours unchanged. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier constraints in the organization of their workweek. (JEL J16, J22, K31)

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