Crisis at Home: Mancession-induced Change in Intrahousehold Distribution

La crise à la maison: Changement induit par la crise dans la distribution au sein des ménages

Olivier Bargain and Laurine Martinoty ()
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Laurine Martinoty: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: The Great Recessions was essentially a 'mancession' in countries like Spain, the UK or the US, i.e. it hit men harder than women for they were disproportionately represented in heavily affected sectors. We investigate how the mancession, and more generally women's relative opportunities on the labor market, translate into within-household redistribution. Precisely, we estimate the spouses' resource shares in a collective model of consumption, using Spanish data over 2006-2011. We exploit the gender-oriented evolution of the economic environment to test two original distribution factors: first the regional-time variation in spouses' relative unemployment risks, then the gender-differentiated shock in the construction sector (having a construction sector husband after the outburst of the crisis). Both approaches conclude that the resource share accruing to Spanish wives increased by around 7-9 percent on average, following the improvement of their relative labor market positions. Among childless couples, we document a 5-11 percent decline in individual consumption inequality following the crisis, which is essentially due to intrahousehold redistribution.

Keywords: Mancession; Intrahousehold allocation; Unemployment; Gender; Great recession; Spain; Inequality; Allocation intra-familiale; Allocation intra-ménage; Genre; Grande récession; Espagne; Inégalité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01
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Published in Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, pp.277-308. ⟨10.1007/s00148-018-0696-x⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/s00148-018-0696-x

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