data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement … home production done by the partner. The fall in household income at retirement of one of the partners is largely … compensated by an increase in total household production. …

New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm … enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm and nonfarm household enterprises … when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …

differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labour supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the wellbeing of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

goods and services and use home capital and labor to produce household services. The optimal tax rate on services is …