Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The marriage unemployment gap

The marriage unemployment gap AbstractIn this paper we document that married individuals face a lower unemployment rate than their single counterparts. We refer to this phenomenon as the marriage unemployment gap. Despite dramatic demographic changes in the labor market over the last decades, this gap has been remarkably stable both for men and women. Using a flow-decomposition exercise, we assess which transition probabilities (across labor force states) are behind this phenomenon: For men, the main driver is the higher job losing probabilities faced by single workers. For females, the participation margin also plays a crucial role. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics de Gruyter

The marriage unemployment gap

Download PDF
14 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/degruyter/the-marriage-unemployment-gap-xaffx32Tkz
Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
©2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
ISSN
1935-1690
eISSN
1935-1690
DOI
10.1515/bejm-2016-0060
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

AbstractIn this paper we document that married individuals face a lower unemployment rate than their single counterparts. We refer to this phenomenon as the marriage unemployment gap. Despite dramatic demographic changes in the labor market over the last decades, this gap has been remarkably stable both for men and women. Using a flow-decomposition exercise, we assess which transition probabilities (across labor force states) are behind this phenomenon: For men, the main driver is the higher job losing probabilities faced by single workers. For females, the participation margin also plays a crucial role.

Journal

The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 26, 2018

References

  • Unemployment, Participation and Worker Flows Over the Life-Cycle
  • Estimating the Labor Market Impact of Voluntary Military Service Using Social Security Data on Military Applicants
  • Reassessing the Ins and Outs of Unemployment
  • Engines Of Liberation
  • Marriage and Divorce: Changes and Their Driving Forces
  • Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
  • Estimating Gross Labor-Force Flows
  • Search by Committee