The added-worker effect in the Netherlands before and during the Great Recession
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... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
| Reihe/Periodikum: | Cammeraat , E , Jongen , E & Koning , P 2023 , ' The added-worker effect in the Netherlands before and during the Great Recession ' , Review of Economics of the Household , vol. 21 , no. 1 , pp. 217-243 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09595-2 |
| Schlagwörter: | Added-worker effect / C21 / Differences-in-differences / Great Recession / H31 / J21 / /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth / name=SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29212257 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/9ba73721-e4be-4ac3-860f-eeec64c1a449 |
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.