Income in the Off-Season: Household Adaptation to Yearly Work Interruptions
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) John Coglianese, Federal Reserve Board; Brendan M. Price
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Project Citation:
Coglianese, John, and Price, Brendan M. Income in the Off-Season: Household Adaptation to Yearly Work Interruptions. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-10-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E238636V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Joblessness is highly seasonal. To analyze how households adapt to seasonal joblessness, we introduce a measure of seasonal work interruptions premised on the idea that a seasonal worker will tend to exit employment around the same time each year. We show that an excess share of prime-age US workers experience recurrent separations spaced exactly 12 months apart. Examining workers most prone to seasonal work interruptions, we find that they incur large earnings losses during the off-season that are little offset by other sources of income. On net, household income falls by about $0.80 for each $1.00 lost in own earnings.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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seasonality;
seasonal employment;
job loss;
household income;
household labor dynamics;
unemployment;
unemployment insurance
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
Time Period(s):
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1984 – 2013
Data Type(s):
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observational data;
survey data
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