In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples

Exploring the Labor Market Consequences of Psychiatric Disorders: An Event Study Approach

“…Thus, volatile macroeconomic conditions raise concerns for reverse causality e.g. due to mass layoffs that have shown to be linked with the deterioration of health mental health (Browning et al, 2006) and mortality (Gathmann et al, 2020). To mitigate the possibility of macroeconomic conditions affecting the interpretations, the results are also reported using a sample that consists of psychiatric admissions for a period of relatively stable economic growth, i.…”

Labor supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples: Evidence from the UK

“…Partners in particular, 2 might provide an important source of informal insurance against this economic risk, both in terms of acting as alternative or additional earners, and in terms of informal care providers, in conjunction with any formal protection available. While interest in family and partners' responses is growing (e.g., Dobkin et al., 2018 ; Fadlon & Nielsen, 2021 ; Jeon & Pohl, 2017 ; but also Gathmann et al., 2020 on the reverse issue of job loss and health spillovers in couples), the existing literature has produced mixed results and evidence limited to labor and family income outcomes. We extend this literature by combining the study of labor supply adjustment to that of the informal care response of household partners, exploiting panel data drawn from the Understanding Society survey, conducted in the UK since 2009.…”