Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France

Clark, Andrew; d'Ambrosio, Conchita; Lepinteur, Anthony

Reference : Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France


	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Business & economic sciences : Social economics
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54518

Title :	Marriage as insurance: job protection and job insecurity in France
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Clark, Andrew [Paris School of Economics-CNRS and University of Luxembourg]
	d'Ambrosio, Conchita [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
	Lepinteur, Anthony [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) >]
Publication date :	In press
Journal title :	Review of Economics of the Household
Publisher :	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Peer reviewed :	Yes
Audience :	International
ISSN :	1569-5239
e-ISSN :	1573-7152
Country :	Netherlands
Keywords :	[en] Marriage ; Insurance ; Difference-in-differences
Abstract :	[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.
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54518
FnR project :	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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