Does unemployment insurance crowd out spousal labor supply?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cullen, JB; Gruber, J
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209969
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 546-572
• 关键词: model; consumption; decisions

摘要

Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has emphasized the program's effect on individual search behavior. This state-contingent income may also reduce the labor supply of family members during the unemployment spell. We investigate this question within the context of wives' labor supply responses to their husbands' unemployment spells. We find strong crowdout of this form of family self-insurance; our estimates imply chat fur each dollar of UI receipt wives earn up to 73 cents less. The reduction in spousal hours of work is over 40% as large as previous estimates of the effect of UI on search rime of husbands.