Changes in marriage and divorce as drivers of employment and retirement of older women.

Autor/inn/en	Olivetti, Claudia; Rotz, Dana E.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Changes in marriage and divorce as drivers of employment and retirement of older women. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Veränderungen bei Heirat und Scheidung als Triebkräfte für die Beschäftigung und den Berufsausstieg älterer Frauen.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2016), 48 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 22738
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Ehescheidung; Frau; Einkommenseffekt; Investition; Berufsausstieg; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Auswirkung; Familienstand; Älterer Arbeitnehmer; USA
Abstract	"We study associations among women's current marital status, past marital history, and later-life labor force participation. We first document these relationships using data from the 1986 to 2008 waves of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). We then exploit variation in laws governing divorce across states and over time to quasi-experimentally identify how the timing of an exogenous increase in divorce risk (that is, the introduction of unilateral divorce) impacts employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross-cohort differences in the probability of divorce over the lifecycle. For women with a low risk of divorce, later exposure to unilateral divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement wealth. This finding suggests that ever-divorced women are working longer remedially; when a woman unexpectedly divorces later in life, she is less likely to have engaged in precautionary human capital investment and might have to work longer to increase her assets prior to retirement. For women with a high risk of divorce, later exposure to increases in divorce risk does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage. These women invest more in their own human capital within marriage, which might insure them against increases in exogenous divorce risk at later ages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/2