Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192496 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 514
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We estimate the effect of plant closure on divorce using a panel data set comprising more than 80,000 married couples in Norway. Plant closure substantially increases the likelihood of marital dissolution of workers in affected plants. The marriages of husbands originally employed in plants that closed between 1995 and 2000 were 11 percent more likely to be dissolved by 2003 than comparable marriages of husbands in stable plants. Additional analyses suggest that the effect of plant closure on divorce is not due to unexpected reduction in earnings. The results are, however, consistent with role theories, in which the husband's attractiveness declines if he fails to fulfill a traditional role as a breadwinner.
Subjects: 
marital dissolution
divorce
new information
shock
plant closure
plant downsizing
displacement
JEL: 
J12
J63
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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