The consequences of own and spousal disability on labor market outcomes and subjective well-being: evidence from Germany

Nils Braakmann

Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, vol. 12, issue 4, 717-736

Abstract: In this paper, I contrast the effects of individual and spousal disability on subjective well-being and labor supply using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984–2006. I find almost no effects in terms of labor market outcomes for both men and women, which stands in stark contrast to the effects of individual disability. The life-satisfaction of women, but not of men, is reduced considerably by their partners’ disability. The effects are about 50–73 % as large as those of individual disability. I also find no evidence that individuals adapt to their partners’ disability, although there is adaptation to individual disability. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

Keywords: Disability; Labor supply; Subjective well-being; Adaptation; Other-regarding preferences; D64; I10; J14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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