The degree to which intra-couple and intra-householdfactors influence self-employment is investigated. After a review of theliterature on the relationship between household influences and employmenttype, data on 31,862 workers who participated in Great Britain's FamilyExpenditure Survey (FES)...

This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well-being. Initially, the empirical analysis, based on a large nationally representative panel survey, aims to ascertain the impact of the household's monetary financial position on overall...

Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a deflated fractional ordered probit model -...