Is there still an added-worker effect?

Arbeitspapier

Using matched March Current Population Surveys, we examine labor market transitions of husbands and wives. We find that the “added-worker effect”—the greater propensity of nonparticipating wives to enter the labor force when their husbands exit employment— is still important among a subset of couples, but that the overall value of marriage as a risk-sharing arrangement has diminished because of the greater positive co-movement of employment within couples. While positive assortative matching on education did increase over time, this shift in the composition of couple types alone cannot account for the increased positive correlation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Staff Report ; No. 310

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: labor, married, Bayesian, participation ; Ehe ; Beschäftigung ; Weibliche Arbeitskräfte ; Arbeitsangebot ; Frauen ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Männer ; Schätzung ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Juhn, Chinhui ; Potter, Simon
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• (where): New York, NY
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/60664
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET