Arbeitspapier

Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France

Job insecurity is one of the risks that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this insurance. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax, paid by larger private firms when they laid off workers aged 50 or over, led to an exogenous rise in job insecurity for the uncovered (younger workers) in these larger firms. A difference-in-differences analysis using French panel data reveals that this greater job insecurity for the under-50s led to a significant rise in their probability of marriage, and especially when the partner had greater job security, consistent with marriage providing insurance against labour-market risk.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15654

Classification
Wirtschaft
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Demographic Economics: Public Policy
Subject
employment protection
insurance
marriage
difference-in-differences

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Clark, Andrew E.
D'Ambrosio, Conchita
Lepinteur, Anthony
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2022

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Clark, Andrew E.
  • D'Ambrosio, Conchita
  • Lepinteur, Anthony
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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