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 …

-benefit systems ; microsimulation ; household labour supply ; multinomial logit ; involuntary unemployment ; double-hurdle …

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 …