Accumulation or absorption? Household non-employment before and after the Great Recession
How do job losses on the individual level translate into household joblessness? Using the economic crisis as an individual employment shock we analyze the pattern of non-employment and low work intensity at the household level across Europe before and since 2009. In a comparative multilevel analysis using the EU-SILC (2005-13) we investigate whether households have been able to absorb these risks or whether they accumulated disadvantages. We focus on welfare regimes and how they moderate the translation process. Our findings show that – unsurprisingly – household non-employment and low work intensity rose after the crisis as individual joblessness increased. However, the relationship between individual non-employment and household joblessness varies widely across welfare regimes. Taking into account compositional factors such as household characteristics and education levels, Mediterranean countries show a dramatically worse increase in household level non-employment. By contrast, households in Nordic countries were better equipped to absorb individual joblessness.
Date:
25 May 2017, 9:30
Venue:
32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Venue Details:
Violet Butler Room
Speakers:
Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford),
Dr Thomas Biegert (WZB Berlin Social Science Centre)
Organising department:
Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser:
Ruth Moore (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Ruth Moore
