Autori
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia
Micklewright, John

Titolo
Why do women married to unemployed men have low participation rates?
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 1991 - Fascicolo: 56 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 20

In a number of countries, women married to unemployed men have lower participation rates in paid work than do wives of employed men - the reverse situation of that suggested by the added worker effect. One possibility is that the employment status of the husband proxies characteristics of the wife associated with a low probability of her being employed. Another is that the labour supply of the wife may be affected by the type of unemployment benefit received by her husband, a disincentive effect arising when this benefit is means-tested on family income. We investigate these issues using panel data on married women in Germany covering five years. The panel nature of the data is used to control for unobservable fixed-effects which may be correlated with the husband's employment status and type of benefit if unemployed. We estimate the Chamberlain fixed-effect logit model using a two-stage technique for a panel with 60 periods. This technique avoids the excessive computational burden that arises with the use of a single stage conditional maximum likelihood approach when panels have more than a few periods.



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