Family Job Search and Wealth: The Added Worker Effect Revisited
J. Ignacio García-Pérez and
Silvio Rendon
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: J. Ignacio García Pérez (jigarper@upo.es)
No 2016-10, Working Papers from FEDEA
Abstract:
We develop and estimate a model of family job search and wealth accumulation. Individuals' job finding and job separations depend on their partners' job turnover and wages as well as common wealth. We fit this model to data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This dataset reveals a very asymmetric labor market within household members, who share the feature that their job finding is stimulated by the partner's job separation, particularly during economic downturns. We uncover a job search-theoretic basis for this added worker effect and find that this effect is stronger with more children in the household. We also show that excluding wealth and savings from the analysis and estimation leads to underestimating the interdependency between household members. Our analysis shows that the policy goal of supporting job search by increasing unemployment transfers is partially offset by the partner's lower unemployment and wages.
Date: 2016-11
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