Job and residential search behaviour of two-earner households

Even though a large share of the workforce belongs to two-earner households , job search models invariably ignore the interaction between the wage earn ers of the same household. In this article, job and residential search beha viour of two-earner households are simultaneously analysed. The main findin g of the theoretical model is that two-earner households search less intens ively in the housing market, and more intensively in the labour market, if the distance between the workplaces of the two wage earners is longer. In t he empirical part the latter finding has been analysed based upon a data se t for Dutch two-earner households. JEL classification: J6, R23.