We develop and estimate a model of family job search and wealth accumulation. Individuals' job finding and job … separations depend on their partners' job turnover and wages as well as common wealth. We fit this model to data from the Survey … children in the household. We also show that excluding wealth and savings from the analysis and estimation leads to …

that households with a participating wife are better able to deal with unemployment of the husband. A supplementary … sensitive to his own unemployment income if the wife is nonparticipating. This implies that unemployment benefits have a …

income and time, poorer people are less likely to get educated since education requires both wealth and free time. But being …