Household Unemployment and the Labour Supply of Married Women
研究了英国失业保险改革缩短领取期限后，对已婚女性劳动供给的影响，区分了福利制度激励效应、夫妻间工资相关性、休闲互补性和沮丧工人效应。
A recent reform to the UK unemployment insurance (UI) system has reduced the duration of entitlement from 12 to six months. The UI and welfare systems interact in the UK in such a way that exhaustion of UI for married individuals has potentially large disincentive effects on the labour supply of spouses. A model of labour supply is estimated for married women allowing for endogenous unemployment durations of husbands and wives. We distinguish between transfer programme induced incentive effects; correlation between labour supply and wages within couples; complementarity between the leisure times of spouses; and a discouraged worker effect.