, savings, and the labor supplies of all adult household members. We show that the optimal policy mix is dominated by moderately … generous social assistance, which guarantees a permanent universal minimum household income, with only a minor role for …

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income oor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

unions can demand different hours from different households, directly taking household heterogeneity into account. In this … households work the same amount but prohibits unions from requiring any household to work more than it would like to. This …

by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment …

on heterogeneous labor market effects on the individual and on the household level and we study the distributional … implications using net household income. In this respect we extend the previous literature which mainly studied employment effects … larger employment effects for women who cannot rely on other income on the household level, e.g. women with a low income …