Marriage and divorce: the role of unemployment insurance
婚姻与离婚：失业保险的作用
Bastian Schulz 1Fabian Siuda2
作者信息
- 1. Aarhus University, the Dale T. Mortensen Centre, ifo Institute, IZA, CESifo
- 2. Vienna University of Economics and Business, ifo Institute
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摘要
本文研究了家庭层面风险分担的变化如何影响婚姻市场。我们使用德国失业保险(UI)改革作为我们的实验室，该改革收紧了基于伴侣收入的经济状况调查。UI慷慨程度的降低增加了对家庭层面风险分担的需求，这降低了面临失业风险的个人的吸引力。由于失业风险与非德国国籍有关，我们的主要发现是，UI改革导致了通婚的减少。2004年欧洲联盟的扩大对受影响民族的通婚产生了类似的影响。这两项改革都提高了婚姻的稳定性，这与夫妇更好的选择是一致的。
Abstract
Abstract This paper examines how changes in household-level risk sharing affect the marriage market. We use as our laboratory a German unemployment insurance (UI) reform that tightened means-testing based on the partner’s income. The reduced generosity of UI increased the demand for household-level risk sharing, which lowered the attractiveness of individuals exposed to unemployment risk. Because unemployment risk correlates with non-German nationality, our main finding is that the UI reform led to a decrease in intermarriage. The 2004 expansion of the European Union had a comparable effect on intermarriage for the affected nationalities. Both reforms increased marital stability, which is consistent with better selection by couples.
Key words
Marriage/Divorce/Household risk sharing/Unemployment insurance/Labor market reform/Intermarriage/EU expansion引用本文复制引用
出版年
2023
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NSTL
Springer Nature