Unemployment Duration of Spouses: Evidence From France

Stefania Marcassa

No 2012-31, THEMA Working Papers from THEMA (THéorie Economique, Modélisation et Applications), Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Abstract: This paper analyzes the conditional probability of leaving unemployment of French married individuals from 1991 to 2002. We find that the effect of spousal labor income on unemployment duration is asymmetric for men and women. In particular, the probability of men to find a job is increasing in wife labor income, while it is decreasing in husband's earnings for women. To adjust for endogenous selection into marriage, we use the occupation of the fathers in-law as an instrumental variable for the spousal wage. Finally, we show that introducing a breadwinner stigma in a joint job search model generates the positive correlation observed for men in the data.

Keywords: unemployment duration; hazard models; labor income; marriage; joint search theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J64 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-eur and nep-lab
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