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How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Data Sets

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  • Kreiner, Claus Thustrup
  • Andersen, Asger Lau
  • Jensen, Amalie
  • Johannesen, Niels
  • Sheridan, Adam

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How do households respond to job loss, and which self-insurance channels are most important? By linking high-frequency customer data from the largest bank in Denmark with government administrative registers, we quantify a broad range of responses to job loss in a unified empirical framework. Two responses stand out: during the first 24 months after job loss, reductions in household spending account for 30% of the income loss, while lower saving in liquid assets accounts for 50%. Other response margins highlighted in the literature - spousal labor supply, private transfers, home equity extraction, mortgage refinancing, and consumer credit - are less important.

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  • Kreiner, Claus Thustrup & Andersen, Asger Lau & Jensen, Amalie & Johannesen, Niels & Sheridan, Adam, 2021. "How Do Households Respond to Job Loss? Lessons from Multiple High-Frequency Data Sets," CEPR Discussion Papers 16131, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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    Keywords

    Cost of unemployment; Social insurance;

    JEL classification:

    • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
    • G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
    • G52 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Insurance
    • J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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