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Unemployment, Splitting up, and Spousal Income Replacement
Author(s) -
Nilsson William
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00401.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , spouse , sample (material) , economics , demographic economics , affect (linguistics) , selection (genetic algorithm) , labour economics , panel data , econometrics , psychology , macroeconomics , sociology , computer science , communication , artificial intelligence , chemistry , chromatography , anthropology
. In this study, the consequences of unemployment for a Swedish sample of couples are analysed. The purpose is to estimate the possible income replacement that a female/male spouse can provide. Unemployment can also affect the probability that the couples split up. As not all couples remain in the analysis, a potential selection problem can occur. To deal with this problem, and also to handle unobserved heterogeneity, a sample selection model for panel data is estimated. Unemployment is not found to be correlated with a higher spousal income.