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The effect of unemployment on social participation of spouses: evidence from plant closures in Germany
- Abstract:
- 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 directly and indirectly affected spouses. Private social activities of either spouse, however, are only found to increase if the indirectly affected spouse is not working. Conflict prevention strategies or habituation may help to rationalise this finding. Our results imply that active labour market policies should account for spillover effects within couples and adopt a family perspective.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 179.8KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s00181-018-1542-4
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- Publisher:
- Springer Verlag
- Journal:
- Empirical Economics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 815–833
- Publication date:
- 2018-08-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-07-13
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1435-8921
- ISSN:
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0377-7332
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English
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920323
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- Springer Verlag
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Springer Verlag at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-018-1542-4
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