The response of Japanese wives’ labor supply to husbands’ job loss
The response of Japanese wives’ labor supply to husbands’ job loss
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日本妻子的劳动力供给对丈夫失业的反应
DOI：
10.1007/s00148-009-0247-6
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Miki Kohara
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作者：
Miki Kohara
本文研究了日本妻子对丈夫非自愿失业的反应，并检验了妻子的劳动力供给与丈夫的劳动力供给是否存在互补性。利用1993年至2004年日本家庭的面板数据，我们发现，当丈夫非自愿失业时，妻子的劳动力供给会受到刺激。详细统计数据显示，不仅职业女性的劳动时间增加，非职业女性也开始参与劳动力市场。在 20 世纪 90 年代中期之后的日本工作不稳定时期，额外的工人效应非常明显。
This paper examines how Japanese wives react to their husbands’ involuntary job loss and tests the existence of complementarity of a wife’s labor supply to her husband’s. Utilizing panel data on Japanese households from 1993 to 2004, we found that wives’ labor supply is stimulated when husbands suffer involuntary job loss. The detailed statistics show that not only do working wives raise their labor hours but also nonworking wives begin to participate in the labor market. The added worker effect is evident during the period of job insecurity in Japan following the mid-1990s.