household. Distinguishing by destination and economic activity I show that the level of insurance increases when migrants and …

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 floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …-related Unemployment Insurance. Reflecting that married couples obtain intra-household insurance by making labor supply choices for both …

The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living … earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model of the household with young children present, that this assumption is not … modelling and numerical simulations based on survey data, that household income is a poor indicator of household well-being. …

(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative … correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by …

The article reports an analysis of the findings of a search for household budget surveys for Latin America for the …

households in Western Europe, 1890-1960. To do this we exploit data extracted from a large number of newly digitised household …. For some we have the original household data, but in most cases we have tables by income group. One by-product of this …

household savings, which are primarily financed through increased paternal labor supply. This is the first paper that highlights …

small, about -0:04. While the wives' earnings gains recover only a tiny fraction of the household income loss, public …. The presence and ages of children in the household are crucial determinants of the wife's labor supply response. The most … explanation for the limited scope of intra-household insurance. …