Does Unemployment Insurance Crowd out Spousal Labor Supply?
研究丈夫失业期间，失业保险金如何减少妻子的劳动供给，发现每领取1美元失业保险，妻子收入减少多达73美分，且妻子工作时间减少幅度超过丈夫搜寻时间减少幅度的40%。
Previous research on unemployment insurance (UI) has emphasized the program's effect on individual search behavior. This state-contingent income may also reduce the labor supply of family members during the unemployment spell. We investigate this question within the context of wives' labor supply responses to their husbands' unemployment spells. We find strong "crowdout" of this form of family self-insurance; our estimates imply that for each dollar of UI receipt wives earn up to 73 cents less. The reduction in spousal hours of work is over 40% as large as previous estimates of the effect of UI on search time of husbands. Copyright 2000 by University of Chicago Press.