The effects of widowhood on the spouse´s labor supply. Do these vary with gender?
Fecha
2019Director
Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Trabajo Fin de Grado/Gradu Amaierako Lana
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Resumen
Losing a partner is one of the
major challenges
a person
ever faces. Being a widow/widower
in working
age may force individuals to change their participation in the labor market. The
most popular belief is that widowed spouses will increase their labor
supply after losing their
partner. However, empirical findings indicate that the assumption of a positive relationship
between wi ...
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Losing a partner is one of the
major challenges
a person
ever faces. Being a widow/widower
in working
age may force individuals to change their participation in the labor market. The
most popular belief is that widowed spouses will increase their labor
supply after losing their
partner. However, empirical findings indicate that the assumption of a positive relationship
between widowhood and labor supply is not
true
for
every scenario, and there is little
coverage of this phenomenon in the literature.
To fill this
gap, we present a simple model
that shows how gender does affect the
labor
responses of the spouses to widowhood.
Moreover, we focus on working-age individuals, commonly ignored in widowhood-centered
studies. Our estimates provide support for the
differing responses of
men and women
in the
event of widowhood.
Moreover, these responses
further
vary with children. Thus, gender
and the type of family nucleus are of great importance when studying individuals’ response
to widowhood.
This study contributes to the literature by examining the labor supply
response of widowed spouses
of
working age, focusing on gender differences. One central
implication is that the pension plan in Spain might fail to adequately meet the needs of those
experiencing the loss of their partner, since their labor supply responses vary greatly
depending on their family situation. [--]
Materias
Widowhood,
Labor supply,
Employment,
Gender differences,
Pensions
Titulación
Enpresen Administrazio eta Zuzendaritzan Nazioarteko Graduatua / Ekonomian Nazioarteko Graduatua Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoan /
Graduado o Graduada Internacional en Administración y Dirección de Empresas / Graduado o Graduada Internacional en Economía por la Universidad Pública de Navarra