This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …

response to a sudden financial shock in family income, that is, unemployment of their partner. While previous empirical studies … focus on married women's response to those shocks, I explicitly analyze the spillover effects of unemployment on both women … and employer terminations as exogenous forms of unemployment. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel …

. This is done after the individuals experience widowhood, marriage, unemployment or disability. We find systematic …

This paper estimates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the level of social participation of their spouse …. Using German panel data, it is shown that unemployment has a strong negative effect on public social activities of both …

This paper is the first to estimate the effect of one partner's entry into unemployment on the mental health of both … unemployment (plant closure) and applies a regression-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy, which is …, unemployment decreased mental health by 25% of a standard deviation for the unemployed individuals themselves and by 23% of a …

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual’s unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …