RT Generic
T1 Breaking the marriage trap: unilateral divorce and its effects on labor supply of married women
A1 Alonso-Borrego, César
A1 Pomares Varo, Gema
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB We assess the impact of the 2005 divorce law reform in Spain, which reduced the time length and the costs of marriage termination, on the labor market outcomes of married women. We use independent cross sections of the Spanish Labor Force Survey between 2001 and 2009. As the reform affected married couples but not unmarried couples, we undertake a differences-in-differences approach to estimate the causal effect. Our results show that the reform substantially increased the participation and the occupation rates of married women by 4 and 3 percentage points, respectively, but reduced their average working hours by 5 percent. This latter result comes along with a large increase in part time employment due to the reform. The effects weremore pronounced for women without young children, with low education levels, and living in provinces where separate property was the default marital regime.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2023
FD 2023-04-20
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/37157
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/37157
LA eng
NO Financial support by MICIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033, grants CEX2021-001181-M and RTI2018-095231-B-I00, and Comunidad de Madrid, grants EPUC3M11 (V PRICIT) and H2019/HUM-5891, is gratefully acknowledged.
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