The Effect of Unemployment on Household Composition and Doubling Up

Emily Wiemers

No 2014_05, Working Papers from University of Massachusetts Boston, Economics Department

Abstract: Doubling up with family and friends is one way in which individuals and families can cope with job loss but there is still relatively little work on the extent to which people use co-residence to weather a spell of unemployment. This project uses data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to provide evidence on the relationship between household composition and unemployment across working ages focusing on differences in behavior by educational attainment. Using the SIPP panels, I find that individuals who become unemployed are twice as likely to move in with other people. Moving into shared living arrangements in response to unemployment is not evenly spread across the distribution of educational attainment; it is most prevalent among individuals with the less than a high school degree and those with at least some college.

Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2014-04
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