Arbeitspapier
Are Married Spouses Insured by their Partners Social Insurance?
We use a Swedish sickness insurance reform to show that among married couples a partners benefit level affects spousal labour supply. The spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partners benefit is estimated to be 0.4, which is about one-fourth of the own labor supply elasticity. It is argued the main part of this effect is an insurance income effect.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 875
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Household Behavior: General
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Subject
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Spousal labor supply
Spill-over
Social insurance programs
Sozialversicherung
Versicherungsschutz
Ehe
Arbeitsangebot
Spillover-Effekt
Schweden
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Olsson, Martin
Skogman Thoursie, Peter
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Olsson, Martin
- Skogman Thoursie, Peter
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Time of origin
- 2011