The Effects of Job Displacement on Spousal Health

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2022

Publisher

Springer

Source Publication

Review of Economics of the Household

Source ISSN

1569-5239

Original Item ID

DOI: 10.1007/s11150-020-09519-6

Abstract

This paper studies how job displacement influences the health of the worker’s spouse. Results show that the husband’s displacement leads to an increase in the probability of the wife reporting her physical health as fair/poor. These wives are also more likely to experience high blood pressure, heart disease, and/or emotional issues. Wives who are in poor health at baseline, are in low financial standing prior to the husbands’ job loss, are not working two years before the husbands’ job loss, and have children at home at the time of the husbands’ displacement tend to drive these results. Husbands of displaced wives experience little change in self-reported health, the probability of high blood pressure, heart disease, or emotional issues.

Comments

Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2022): 123-152. DOI.

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