Family ties: Labor supply responses to cope with a household employment shock

BALDINI, Massimo; TORRICELLI, Costanza; Urzì Brancati, Maria Cesira

doi:10.1007/s11150-017-9375-z

We use data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to explore labor responses of individuals (not only the spouse) to a negative employment shock suffered by another household member. We focus on Italy where family ties other than spousal ones are particularly strong and grown up children live in their parents’ household till late, especially when they are students. Two main results emerge. First, we find strong and robust evidence that households hit by an employment shock do respond by increasing labor supply. Second, we document an added worker effect that is affecting not only wives, but also teenage children and students independently of their age, with important policy implications in terms of human capital formation. Results are robust across gender, household financial conditions and the crisis, yet they do not point to differential reactions along these dimensions.

Data di pubblicazione:	2018
Titolo:	Family ties: Labor supply responses to cope with a household employment shock
Autore/i:	Baldini, Massimo; Torricelli, Costanza; Urzì Brancati, Maria Cesira
Autore/i UNIMORE:	BALDINI, Massimo TORRICELLI, Costanza Urzì Brancati , Maria Cesira
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-017-9375-z
Rivista:	REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD
Volume:	16
Fascicolo:	3
Pagina iniziale:	809
Pagina finale:	832
Codice identificativo ISI:	WOS:000440718900010
Codice identificativo Scopus:	2-s2.0-85019562209
Citazione:	Family ties: Labor supply responses to cope with a household employment shock / Baldini, Massimo; Torricelli, Costanza; Urzì Brancati, Maria Cesira. - In: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD. - ISSN 1569-5239. - 16:3(2018), pp. 809-832.
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