The added-worker effect in the Netherlands before and during the Great Recession

Emile Cammeraat (), Egbert Jongen and Pierre Koning
Additional contact information
Emile Cammeraat: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, Leiden University
Egbert Jongen: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, Leiden University and IZA

Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, vol. 21, issue 1, No 8, 217-243

Abstract: Abstract We study the added-worker effect in the Netherlands with large-scale administrative panel data for the period 1999–2015. Conditioning on samples with similar employment histories, we employ differences-in-differences to estimate the effect of a male partner’s unemployment shock on the female partner’s income. We find a modest added-worker effect of 2–5% of the male partner’s income loss, as compared to the much larger compensating effect from social insurance schemes. The added-worker effect largely disappeared at the beginning of the Great Recession, but resurfaced a few years later. Over the years, profits from self-employment have become more important in dealing with unemployment shocks.

Keywords: C21; H31; J21; Added-worker effect; Great Recession; Differences-in-differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11150-021-09595-2 Abstract (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:reveho:v:21:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1007_s11150-021-09595-2

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... cs/journal/11150/PS2

DOI: 10.1007/s11150-021-09595-2

Access Statistics for this article

Review of Economics of the Household is currently edited by Shoshana Grossbard

More articles in Review of Economics of the Household from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().