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Marriage as Insurance: Job Protection and Job Insecurity in France

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • Contributors:
      Paris School of Economics (PSE); Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE); Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PJSE); University of Luxembourg Luxembourg
    • بيانات النشر:
      HAL CCSD
    • الموضوع:
      2020
    • Collection:
      Paris School of Economics: HAL / PSE-Ecole d’économie de Paris
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Job insecurity is one type of risk that workers face on the labour market. As with any risk, individuals can choose to insure against it. We consider marriage as potential insurance against labour-market risk. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande layoff tax for older workers produced an exogenous rise in job insecurity for younger workers. A difference-in-differences estimation in panel data reveals that this greater job insecurity for the under-50s led to a significant rise in their probability of marriage, and especially with partners who had greater job security, consistent with marriage providing insurance on the labour market.
    • Relation:
      halshs-02933888; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-02933888; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-02933888/document; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-02933888/file/WP_202055_.pdf
    • Rights:
      info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.8983BAB7