If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an … prediction has been tested in the literature using time and/or spatial variation in divorce legislation (e.g., across US states ….e., the legalization of divorce. In Ireland, the right to divorce was introduced in 1996, followed by an acceleration of …

techniques, we show that a husband’s involuntary job loss is associated with an increase in the risk of divorce by roughly 70 … percent in the following period. The estimated relative risk of divorce is generally higher for involuntary job losses than …