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Title: Women's work and men's unemployment

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: A large literature examines men's unemployment and their wives' labor-market participation. In response to her husband's unemployment, a woman may adjust her labor supplied to household production as well as to the market. This article tests for this effect and measures its impact using the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Cost of Living survey of 19171919. Households altered both household-production decisions and the wife's labor supplied to the market in response to the husband's unemployment. But the household-production-response effect was smaller than the added-worker effect, in terms of women's labor hours and household consumption.

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Authors: Moehling, Carolyn M.

Periodical (Full): The Journal of Economic History

Issue: 4

Volume: 61

Pages: 926-949

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States