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This book deals with modelling of neoclassical labour supply models for one-adult and two-adult households. A standard labour supply model is presented and estimated on Dutch data from 1985. A modification of the standard model is formulated taking explicit account of nonconvexities in the budget set, related to the Dutch social security and welfare system. Habit formation and interdependent preferences are analyzed and a structural model of job choice, labour supply and wages is developed by incorporating nonpecuniary job characteristics into a utility maximization model. A full simultaneous model of labour supply in wage determination is estimated, taking into account the possibility that the individual is faced with the limited availability of jobs. Of particular interest to the readers will be the new methods developed and the results presented

This study examines the relationship between public expenditure on professional home care and unpaid caring by the over-50s in Europe, and whether this relationship differs between working and non-working populations. We use Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe data from eight European countries merged with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development data on home-care expenditure in 2004, 2007, 2011 and 2013. Using logistic regressions with fixed effects, our findings provide evidence that rising expenditure is associated with lower probabilities of (regular) unpaid caring by the over-50s, but only among those not in work. The consequences of the increasing emphasis on unpaid caring, especially combined with paid work, should be studied further.