Worker Displacement and the Added Worker Effect

By Melvin Stephens, Jr.. Journal of Labor Economics, 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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Husband’s Unemployment and Wife’s Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe (2018, positive): “Although we are the first to provide comprehensive evidence on the added worker effect across Europe, our results are in accordance with previous literature, which tends to find no or small added worker effects in high-welfare countries, such as Norway (Hardoy and Schøne, 2014), but stronger effects”
Unemployment and consumption near and far away from the Mediterranean (2008, result): “In the other countries none of these effects is significant, which is consistent with a large literature that has found no strong effects of the husband’s unemployment on the labor supply of the wife (Cullen and Gruber 2000; an exception is Stephens 2002).”
Caution! Men not at work: Gender-specific labor market conditions and child maltreatment (2018, neutral): “According to theoretical models of household labor supply, such as those in Lundberg (1985), Killingsworth and Heckman (1987), and Stephens (2002), Cmt, Cft, and Cot are functions of the labor market opportunities facing fathers and mothers.”
Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification (2012, background): “Stephens (2002) argues that wives may increase employment before husbands become unemployed, and continue to increase employment in the years after a layoff.”
The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis (2012, neutral): “3 Stephens (2002).”
Lost jobs, broken marriages (2004, background): “The two other variables measure the share of married men and women, in the 12 See Rantakeisu et al. (1999) on the relation between unemployment and shame.”