Reference : Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France
Scientific journals : Article
Business & economic sciences : Social economics
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54518
Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France
English
Clark, Andrew mailto [Paris School of Economics-CNRS and University of Luxembourg]
d'Ambrosio, Conchita mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
Lepinteur, Anthony mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
In press
Review of Economics of the Household
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Yes
International
1569-5239
1573-7152
Netherlands
[en] Marriage ; Insurance ; Difference-in-differences
[en] Job insecurity is one of the risks that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it, and we here consider marriage as one potential source of this insurance. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax, paid by larger private firms when they laid off workers aged 50 or over, led to an exogenous rise in job insecurity for the uncovered (younger workers) in these larger firms. A difference-in-differences analysis using French panel data reveals that this greater job insecurity for the under-50s led to a significant rise in their probability of marriage, and especially when the partner had greater job security, consistent with marriage providing insurance against labour-market risk.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54518
FnR ; FNR12677653 > Conchita D'ambrosio > FESI > Financial Strain And Economic Instability: Effects On Wellbeing And Behaviour Over The Life Course > 01/09/2019 > 31/08/2022 > 2018

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