The Entry of the Wife into the Labor Force in Response to the Husband’s Unemployment: A Study of the Added Worker Effect in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas

Fernandes, Reynaldo; Felício, Fabiana de

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“…For example, this represents around 57% of the negative effect of having at least one child under 5 years of age (which decreases mean participation by 31% approximately). These results are consistent with previous evidence for other Latin American countries such as Argentina (Cerrutti 2000;Lee and Cho 2005), Brazil (Fernandes and de Felicio 2005), and Asian countries (Lim 2000;Kohara 2010). …”

Section: Changes In Labor Supply Of Wives In Response To the Husbandssupporting

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Social protection during recessions: evidence from Chile

Guzmán

2016

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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This article analyzes the main labor market risk management strategies adopted by the Chilean Government during the 1999 recession that was initially related to the Asian financial crisis. Their successes and failures can suggest innovative social protection solutions for other countries. It seems that the 1999-2001 labor reforms and a three-year plan to increase the minimum wage intensified the recession's effects on unemployment. Probit models indicate that households coped with the recession's effects by increasing wives' labor supply but not by withdrawing children from schools. The expansion of employment programs probably helped households to adopt these coping strategies.

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Section: Changes In Labor Supply Of Wives In Response To the Husbandssupporting

confidence: 92%

Social protection during recessions: evidence from Chile

Guzmán

2016

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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“…A large literature in labour economics has studied the added worker effects (AWE) of economic shocks, where women join the workforce in response to unemployment of other household members, particularly husbands (for example , Lundberg 1985;Finegan and Margo 1994;Fernandes and de Felicio 2005). This body of research argues that female labour supply is the most responsive to male unemployment in the short run when women join the workforce to replace temporarily lost income.…”

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Remittances and Labour Supply in Post‐Conflict Tajikistan

Justino

Shemyakina

2012

IDS Working Papers

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The Conflict, Violence and Development research cluster is part of the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team at the Institute of Development Studies. The cluster's main focus is to develop new insights into how people in contexts of conflict and violence live and interact, and what institutions best support them. We use our research findings to inform, identify and develop policies and practices that will strengthen people's efforts to secure their own lives and livelihoods. Email: conflict@ids.ac.uk Web: www.ids.ac.uk/go/research-teams/vulnerability-and-poverty-reduction-team/researchthemes/conflict CVD WP7 This publication is copyright, but may be reproduced by any method without fee for teaching or nonprofit purposes, but not for resale. Formal permission is required for all such uses, but normally will be granted immediately. For copying in any other circumstances, or for reuse in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from the publisher and a fee may be payable. Remittances and Labour Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan Patricia Justino and Olga N. Shemyakina SummaryThis paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labour supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. We find that on average men and women from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labour market and supply fewer hours when they do. The negative effect of remittances on labour supply is smaller for women, which is an intriguing result as other studies on remittances and labour supply (primarily focused on Latin America) have shown that female labour supply is more responsive to remittances. The results are robust to using different measures of remittances and inclusion of variables measuring migration of household members. We estimate a joint effect of remittances and an individual's residence in a conflict-affected area during the Tajik civil war. Remittances had a larger impact on the labour supply of men living in conflict-affected areas compared to men in less conflict-affected areas. The impact of remittances on the labour supply of women does not differ by their residence in both the more or less conflict affected area.

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“…The second effect is an 'added worker effect' (AWE), where married women enter the labour market when their husbands become unemployed. An extensive literature finds a sizable AWE in analyses of women's transition in and out of the labour force in response to the husband's unemployment in the presence of borrowing constraints (Fernandes & De Felicio, 2005;Finegan & Margo, 1994;Lundberg, 1985). Labour supply of women adjusts to temporary changes in their husband's employment, while household's consumption responds to permanent changes in income; for example, persistent unemployment.…”

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Exploring the Impact of Conflict Exposure during Formative Years on Labour Market Outcomes in Tajikistan

Shemyakina

2015

The Journal of Development Studies

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This study explores the effect of the 1992-1998 armed conflict in Tajikistan on the labour market outcomes by gender. The focus is on cohorts that were of school age during the conflict or recently entered the labour force. The regression analysis controls for the cohort and district-level exposure to conflict. Younger women but not men who also lived in regions more affected by conflict were at least 10 percentage points more likely to be employed than similarly aged women from lesser affected districts. These results suggest a change in female employment patterns potentially induced by war.

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The Entry of the Wife into the Labor Force in Response to the Husband’s Unemployment: A Study of the Added Worker Effect in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas

Cited by 39 publications

References 8 publications

Social protection during recessions: evidence from Chile

Social protection during recessions: evidence from Chile

Remittances and Labour Supply in Post‐Conflict Tajikistan

Exploring the Impact of Conflict Exposure during Formative Years on Labour Market Outcomes in Tajikistan

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