Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191402 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7377
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper revisits the added worker effect. Using bivariate random-effects probit estimation on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market participation, which also leads to an increase in their employment probability. Our analysis considers within- and between-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses and their partners’ unemployment in the previous period (within-effect) and their partners’ overall probability of being unemployed (between-effect). Furthermore, we demonstrate that partners’ employment in low-paid jobs has an effect on women’s labor market choices and outcomes similar to that of his unemployment.
Subjects: 
added worker effect
labor supply
family economics
unemployment
low-pay employment
JEL: 
D12
D13
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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