ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates whether the job moving behaviour of workers who belong to a two-earner household behave structurally different from single wage-earners' job moving behaviour. Two-earner households consist of two wage earners who have different working places, but share a dwelling, which restricts the choice set of acceptable jobs. The practical importance of emphasising the presence of employed spouses is evident from the large share of wage earners who belong to two-earner households. For example, in the Netherlands, about one third of employed persons is currently part of a two-earner household, whereas in most other developed countries this share is even significantly higher. The Telepanel data set is used again, it is collected in 1992-1993, includes the complete life course pattern of about 3000 Dutch respondents, including the labour career. The data were collected in a retrospective way. The data set allows for a distinction between voluntary moves and involuntary job moves.
