Household Unemployment and the Labour Supply of Married Women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9721459
AutoresPaul Bingley, Ian Walker (0000-0002-0079-3149)
Año2001
Volumen68
Número270
Páginas157-186
Fecha de publicación2001-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-0335.00240
OpenAlexW3124325010
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9

A recent reform to the UK unemployment insurance (UI) system has reduced the duration of entitlement from 12 to six months. The UI and welfare systems interact in the UK in such a way that exhaustion of UI for married individuals has potentially large disincentive effects on the labour supply of spouses. A model of labour supply is estimated for married women allowing for endogenous unemployment durations of husbands and wives. We distinguish between transfer programme induced incentive effects; correlation between labour supply and wages within couples; complementarity between the leisure times of spouses; and a discouraged worker effect

Complementarity (molecular biology) · Demographic economics · Duration (music) · Economic growth · Economics · Entitlement (fair division) · Incentive · Labour economics · Labour supply · Unemployment · Welfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality