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Spousal Labor Supply as Insurance: Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd Outthe Added Worker Effect?

National Bureau of Economic ResearchPublished 1 June 1996Open access
Jonathan Gruber, Julie Berry Cullen
DOI10.3386/w5608
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Abstract

We consider the role of spousal labor supply as insurance against spells of unemployment, Standard theory suggests that women should work more when their husbands are out of work (the "Added Worker Effect" or AWE), but there has been little empirical support for this contention.

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Social SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and FinanceBusiness, Management and Accounting