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 …

We study the role of household saving behaviour, of individual motives for saving and that of perceived liquidity … constraints in 15 Euro Area countries. The empirical analysis is based on the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a new … harmonized data set collecting detailed information on wealth holdings, consumption and income at the household level. Since the …

household surveys use a response scale that is tailored towards low-inflation regimes. Using data from a randomized controlled …

The availability of quantity information along with expenditure information in some household surveys allows the …

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 …