The three largest items on the list of public expenditures in Denmark (and many other countries)are retirement, health, and education. These are also the topics ofi nterest in the three Chapters of this dissertation. While the chapters are quite different from each other, they share three...

During the last decades the appearance of a family has changed substantially. Not long ago a typical family consisted of an employed man and a home-managing woman living together for their whole life times, and having one or more children, which primarily were raised by the wife. Today differing...