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When Married Men Lose Jobs: Income Replacement within the Family

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Using matched-file data from the January and March 1986 Current Population Surveys, the author estimates a model of earnings reduction and family income replacement in 1985 for a group of married men displaced from full-time nonagricultural jobs. The displacements, which occurred between 1981 and 1984, resulted in substantial earnings losses for a large fraction of the sample. Husbands with earnings losses had higher levels of spouse earnings and income transfers in 1985 than the control group of non-displaced husbands, but the fraction of lost earnings replaced was not large on average. The author concludes that long-term trends in both the nature of the experience of displaced workers and the structure of the family economy call for reconsideration of traditional family adjustment mechanisms.

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  • Adam D. Seitchik, 1991. "When Married Men Lose Jobs: Income Replacement within the Family," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 44(4), pages 692-707, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:44:y:1991:i:4:p:692-707
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    1. Ruhm, Christopher J, 1994. "Advance Notice, Job Search, and Postdisplacement Earnings," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 12(1), pages 1-28, January.
    2. Hock LK. & Sivananthiran A., 1995. "Contract labour in plantations, construction and sawmilling in Malaysia : a survey report," ILO Working Papers 993085263402676, International Labour Organization.

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