Job Insecurity within the Household: Are Australian Householders Caring when it Comes to Risk Sharing?

Francesco Mariotti; Maria Dixon; Karen Ann Mumford; Yolanda Pena-Boquete

Job Insecurity within the Household: Are Australian Householders Caring when it Comes to Risk Sharing?

Francesco Mariotti, Maria Dixon, Karen Ann Mumford, Yolanda Pena-Boquete

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Abstract

We investigate perceived job security risk and the distribution of non-labour income between spouses in a household context. In the process, the restrictions implied by Beckerian-caring preferences in the Chiappori (2002) Collective model are considered, and estimates of the sharing rule are derived. The findings support the idea of household formation as a tool that caring partners use to share risk. Our results provide further insight as to how unemployment risk may affect interaction between Australian spouses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	77-90
Number of pages	14
Journal	Australian Journal of Labour Economics
Volume	19
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Keywords

household, labour supply, job-insecurity, collective, bargaining

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