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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Russell Sage Foundation
2017-04-01
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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 |