Umeå Economic Studies, Department of Economics, Umeå University
No 707:
The Role of Unemployment in the Commitment Dissolution Decision among Young Swedes
Magdalena Norberg-Schönfeldt ()
Abstract: This paper studies the role of unemployment in the
dissolution of relationships by applying a two-step estimation method to an
extensive data set, which contains information about young Swedish males
and females. Unemployment is recognized as endogenous in the separation
decision, and the results show that the effect of unemployment on
separation is biased when unemployment is assumed to be exogenous in the
separation equation. The probability of separation is found to be
increasing with male unemployment, whereas female unemployment decreases
the probability of dissolution.
Keywords: Unemployment; divorce; family structure; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: J12; (follow links to similar papers)
44 pages, June 7, 2007
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