structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity … by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment …

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

social programs, savings and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income oor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

social programs, savings, and the labor supplies of all adult household members. The optimal policy mix focuses mainly on … and savings decisions of singles and married couples. Partial insurance against wage and employment shocks is provided by … Social Assistance, which provides a permanent universal household income floor, with a minor role for temporary earnings …

, savings, and the labor supplies of all adult household members. We show that the optimal policy mix is dominated by moderately …. To do so, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply, savings, and social assistance claiming decisions … generous social assistance, which guarantees a permanent universal minimum household income, with only a minor role for …

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …