The Changing Consequences of Unemployment for Household Finances

In this article we present new evidence that the capacity of households to cover earnings lost during spells of unemployment through a combination of drawing down of wealth and receipt of unemployment insurance and other transfer payments is very limited and has deteriorated since the 1980s. Since 2...

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Main Authors: William T. Dickens, Robert K. Triest, Rachel B. Sederberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russell Sage Foundation 2017-04-01
Series:RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.rsfjournal.org/doi/full/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.09