Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce?
Autor:innen
Autor:in (Körperschaft)
Publikationsdatum
2022
Typ der Arbeit
Studiengang
Typ
01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Herausgeber:innen
Herausgeber:in (Körperschaft)
Betreuer:in
Übergeordnetes Werk
Journal of European Social Policy
Themenheft
DOI der Originalpublikation
Link
Reihe / Serie
Reihennummer
Jahrgang / Band
Ausgabe / Nummer
Seiten / Dauer
1-16
Patentnummer
Verlag / Herausgebende Institution
SAGE
Verlagsort / Veranstaltungsort
Auflage
Version
Programmiersprache
Abtretungsempfänger:in
Praxispartner:in/Auftraggeber:in
Zusammenfassung
This study examines whether unemployment insurance benefit generosity impacts divorce, drawing on full population administrative data and a Swiss reform that reduced unemployment insurance maximum benefit duration. We assess the effect of the reform by comparing the pre- to the post-reform change in divorce rates among unemployed individuals who were affected by the reform with the change in divorce rates among a statistically balanced group of unemployed individuals who was not affected by the reform. Difference-indifferences estimates suggest that the reform caused a 2.8 percentage point increase in divorce (a 25% increase). Effects were concentrated among low-income couples (+58%) and couples with an unemployed husband (+32%) though gender differences are attributable to men’s breadwinner status. Female main breadwinners were more strongly affected (+78%) than male main breadwinners (+40%). Results confirm the ‘family stress model’ which posits that job search and financial stress cause marital conflict. Policymakers should consider a broad array of impacts, including divorce, when considering reductions in unemployment insurance generosity
Schlagwörter
Unemployment insurance, divorce, income, unemployment benefits, family stress, quasi-experiment
Fachgebiet (DDC)
360 - Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
Veranstaltung
Startdatum der Ausstellung
Enddatum der Ausstellung
Startdatum der Konferenz
Enddatum der Konferenz
Datum der letzten Prüfung
ISBN
ISSN
1461-7269
0958-9287
0958-9287
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Preprint
Begutachtung
Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation
Open Access-Status
Hybrid
Lizenz
Zitation
KESSLER, Dorian, Debora HEVENSTONE, Leen VANDECASTEELE und Samin SEPAHNIYA, 2022. Weathering the storm together: Does unemployment insurance help couples avoid divorce? Journal of European Social Policy. 2022. S. 1–16. DOI 10.1177/09589287221141363. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4591