Economic theory suggests that when a primary earner within a couple loses their job, one potential response is for the secondary earner to seek additional paid work to bolster their household finances. The empirical quantitative evidence regarding any such 'added worker effect' is mixed, and, to investigate why this might be, the article explores processes behind couples' responses to job loss. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with a purposive sample selected from the Understanding Society Innovation Panel, the analysis examines: (a) anticipation surrounding job loss and job search responses; (b) the extent to which couples adopt long-or short-term labour market perspectives; and (c) whether couples seek to preserve their established division of paid and unpaid labour or re-configure their joint labour supply. Findings indicate that the use of additional spousal labour is only one response among many alternatives and it is typically invoked in cases of serious financial hardship.

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THIS is one of those masterly productions which have made Professor 'Vatts not only famous but formidable, and for which he deserves the thanks of all the Churches. The leaders of the down-grade movement, with which the volume deals, may conveniently ignore the author, or quietly smile at him, but they will hardly dare to meet him in single combat. This is not a book of consecutive chapters on a given subject, but rather a series of successive articles on subjects closely related both in thought and theology. 1t is a very elaborate, trenchant, and scathing review of the criticism, theology, and science of such scientists, specially, as Darwin, Lie Conte, and Drummond, and of such critics and theologians as Drs. Robertson Smith,

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