The effects of changes in employment status on health within couples have attracted increasing attention. This paper contributes to this emerging research by investigating whether the impact of a partner’s employment status on individual self-rated health varies systematically across countries with varying decommodification levels. We use longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and hybrid models. We find that a change in an individual’s employment status may affect the health not just of the person who experiences this transition, but that of his or her partner. The likelihood that such a spillover will occur varies across countries with different decommodification levels. The negative effects of a partner’s employment status on self-rated health are observed when the generosity of welfare state support is limited. The moderating effects of financial support from the state are not very strong, though. They are not robust across all our models and do not extend to all the dimensions of the generosity of welfare state support.

就业状况变化对夫妻健康的影响已引起越来越多的关注。本文通过调查伴侣的就业状况对个人自我评估健康的影响是否在不同商品化水平不同的国家之间系统地变化，为这项新兴研究做出了贡献。我们使用来自欧盟收入和生活状况统计（EU-SILC）和混合模型的纵向数据。我们发现，个人就业状况的改变不仅会影响经历这种过渡的人的健康，还会影响其伴侣的健康。在不同商品化水平不同的国家，发生这种溢出的可能性各不相同。当福利国家支持的慷慨性受到限制时，可以观察到伴侣的就业状况对自我评估健康的负面影响。但是，国家财政支持的调节作用不是很强。它们在我们所有的模型中都不稳健，并且没有扩展到福利国家支持慷慨的所有方面。